Paramount Classics | Release Date: March 8, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
13
Negative:
4
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A giddy comic fantasy, full of romance, chicanery and beguiling, sophisticated players.
50
The best of the lot are Greta Scacchi, as an actress trying to peddle her first screenplay (with herself attached as director), and Ron Silver.
40
Can't hold a candle to Robert Altman's 1992 comedy "The Player." Both films present themselves as knowing views of the movie business, but Mr. Altman and his writer, Michael Tolkin, really knew.
25
Pleasantly meanders around a group of people who pitch projects and pitch woo on the Riviera.
25
There is something offensively lazy about the thinness of the Jaglom's movie-industry characters, the simplistic problems they face, and the clumps of clumsy, apparently improvised dialogue they have to deliver.