| Plot |
Premise
of the story follows veteran film producer 'Ben' (Robert De Niro),
still chafing over his recent separation from his wife 'Kelly'
(Robin Wright Penn), while having to deal with a deliberate arson
fire set by red-lipsticked Brit film director 'Jeremy'.
To Ben's delight, Jeremy makes some cuts to a film that promise
to pay off big at the box office, but when the film is screened
at Cannes, the increasingly unbalanced Jeremy has a shocking surprise
in store.
The cast of characters include 'Kelly', Ben's ex-wife and mother
of their two young children (who has an affair with Ben's writer
friend 'Scott'), 'Lou Tarnow', a powerful female studio head convinced
that Ben and Jeremy's new movie is box office poison, 'Dick Bell',
a Hollywood agent who is single, wealthy and neurotic to the point
of incapacity, 'Zoe', Ben's gorgeous 17 year old daughter, 'Johnny',
a Middle Eastern film producer constantly surrounded by beautiful
starlets, 'Cal', a frazzled director, 'Dr. Montez', a female "separation"
therapist, 'Laura', an ambitious young development executive,
'Abba Peterson', a glass-eyed film investor with deep pockets
and 'Mary', a photographer's assistant who organizes a shoot of
A-list producers for a Vanity Fair magazine spread. |