Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

Name: Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2006-06-13
Duration: 1 h 15 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Peter Bogdanovich, Pierce Brosnan, David Brown

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6.4/10

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Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)

Documentary

Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make movie magic.Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make movie magic.Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make movie magic.

6.4/10

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Director
- Bill Couturié
Writers
- Peter Bart(book "Boffo!: How I Learned to Love the Blockbuster and Fear the Bomb")
- Bill Couturié(screenplay)
Stars

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Director
- Bill Couturié
Writers
- Peter Bart(book "Boffo!: How I Learned to Love the Blockbuster and Fear the Bomb") (screenplay)
- Bill Couturié(screenplay)
All cast & crew

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 nomination total

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6.4

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6.4

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5.7

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7.1

And the Oscar Goes to...

7.2

Michael Clayton

Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make movie magic.

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Genre
- Documentary
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Quotes
Morgan Freeman: [about "Bonfire of the Vanities"] When an airliner crashes, they say that it's usually caused by a series of mishaps.

Connections
Features The Kiss (1896)

Top review

10/10

A definite "ADD" to the filmmaker's library

Excellent documentary exploring the dichotomy, mystery and miracles of film-making. It's funny, serious, whimsical, self-contradictory, and full of the width and breath of personalities that rule Hollywood...behind or in front of the camera. Filmmakers from Sidney Pollack to George Clooney all take the stage in all their glory and personality to explain to the view the tricks, formulas, secrets, mysteries and miracles of film-making. We see that not as the A-List superstars they are, but as mere cogs in the Hollywood system deftly juggling creativity with the economics and politics of film-making. I highly recommend adding this to your library if you are a filmmaker in any sense of the word.

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