Directed by Anthony Drazan
Writing Credis David Rabe (play)
David Rabe (screenplay)
Cast Sean Penn as Eddie
Kevin Spacey as Mickey
Robin Wright Penn as Darlene
Chazz Palminteri as Phil
Garry Shandling as Artie
Anna Paquin as Donna
Meg Ryan as Bonnie
Genre Comedy/Drama
Budget $ 6.000.000
Box Office USA $1,798,862
Opening Weekend $164,826, 16 theaters, $10,301 average
Widest release 84 theaters
Release Date 25 Diciembre 1998
Filming Dates 9 December 1997- 26 January 1998
Filming locations California, USA
Plot
Eddie (Sean Penn) is a Hollywood casting agent who must be doing OK, judging by the house he has up in the Hollywood Hills. His roommate for the time being is Mickey (Kevin Spacey), who is on leave from wife and kids and bemused by the menagerie in Eddie's living room.
Phil (Chazz Palminteri) is a frequent visitor, an actor with a sinister emotional underside. He turns up from time to time, and so does Artie (Garry Shandling), who materializes with a "CARE package"--an underage drifter (Anna Paquin) who is ready to trade sex for just about anything.
The major presence in Eddie's life is Darlene (Robin Wright Penn), his girlfriend, who likes him but has her eyes open and sees that Eddie is so far gone into cocaine that she'd better start looking around for another port in the storm. Mickey, maybe? And then there's a stripper named Bonnie (Meg Ryan) who sometimes goes out with Phil. Some of these gender couplings are entirely sex-based, while others append the illusion of meaning; Eddie, for example, is convinced he loves Darlene, although his love is expressed less by communicating with Darlene than by monologues about her that he delivers to his own drug-crazed brain.
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