WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
South Lamar
Barry Levinson, the director behind classics like THE NATURAL, RAIN MAN, AVALON & WAG THE DOG, has a new film out in theaters right now starring living legends like Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, John Turturro, Stanley Tucci & Sean Penn. If films were dogs, this one's pure bred. And it's only playing at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar.
Based on the memoire of Hollywood producer Art Linson, who also wrote the screenplay, the film follows De Niro as a producer along the outrageous trajectory to what it takes to get his film made- which, in this case, is a boldly 'visionary' work of art starring Sean Penn...which also fiercely looks like an audience-offending flop which draws the ire of iron-gloved studio chief Lou (CATHERINE KEENER), who forces him into tangling with the film's rebellious and drug-addled director Jeremy (MICHAEL WINCOTT). Meanwhile, he's confused and bewitched by his ex Kelly (ROBIN WRIGHT PENN) who can't make up her mind about him; shocked by his daughter Zoe (KRISTEN STEWART), who seems to have grown up overnight; infuriated by his screenwriter friend Scott (STANLEY TUCCI) who's trying to make a deal with him while making moves on his former wife, and horrified by a hirsute Bruce Willis (BRUCE WILLIS) and flummoxed by Willis' nebbishy agent Dick (JOHN TURTURRO), who's scared to death of his own clients.
A wonderful document of the sewage Hollywood dredges through to put magic on the screen.
See it.
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