Hoffman plays New York actor Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman), a talented yet opinionated perfectionist unable to find work. His flustered agent (Pollack) sends him on a soap opera audition that goes poorly. Michael decides to reinvent himself as actress Dorothy Michaels and wins the part. What ...
While not a womanizer, he does carry on an affair with Baez (Monica Barbaro) and dates Sylvie Russo (Elle Fanning) during this time. Russo (changed from Suze Rotolo at Dylan’s request) is a fascinating character since she reportedly influenced Dylan’s work during that period. The focus i...
In some cases, directors rely on towing companies to stage crashes safely. Instead of risking an actor’s safety or damaging expensive vehicles, towing professionals use rigs to pull or position cars to make the stunt look real without the danger. Common Roles of Towing in Film: Car positionin...
So it goes when you are, possibly, on the cusp of stardom but still live in the same old walk-up, whose main design elements are a tall stack of CD's in the living room and the huge ripped-up sofa that you found on the street. Mr. Murphy, who starred in the hit horror film '...
with large parts having the put-me-to-sleep effect of slow moving old time horror. There is *lots* of vaginal imagery but no actual vaginas. Unclear resolution on the ending. This movie does not look great, I shudder to imagine it prior to this uplift work. I mean, I get the guy ...
sentenced to prison and barred from filmmaking for 20 years, is still waiting to find out about his final fate. The finished film was smuggled out of Iran (on a USB thumb drive hidden inside a cake) and shown first at the Cannes Film Festival, and subsequently at the New York Film Fest...
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Malcolm gets up and moves to another seat on the car, away from the Curious Man. As he sits down, he notices two other COMMUTERS across from him are staring at him, that special look reserved for those involved in some kind of scandal. Malcolm looks at them. They look away. He pull...
Later, as intruders held at gunpoint by the school headmistress, Buster smiles to reassure her they aren’t really a threat. In all, a fan familiar with Keaton’s stage work, eager to witness his first onscreen appearance, might very well have wondered “this is frozen-faced Buster?” In...
When we woke up in the morning, there used to be ___3___ on the windows outside, and sometimes on the inside! It was a hard life, ___4___ I remember ___5___ our holidays by the sea. We always used to go to the same place every year. It was a beautiful place. I was...