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| Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: October 31, 2008 |
Summary:
Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made.
Genre(s):
Drama, Comedy
Runtime:
104 min
Barry Levinson’s comedy is stronger on the incidental detail: Keener ruthlessly expelling an underling from her office, or Variety’s acid reporting of an agent’s suicide (‘10 per center puts himself in turnaround’). But the big finale at Cannes feels inauthentic – a bit of a letdown from the director who so brilliantly pilloried Robert Evans in Wag The Dog.
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The real tragedy of What Just Happened isn’t that it succumbs to predictable pseudo-satirical farce but that when it does, it loses sight of the very thing that could have made it a film worth caring about: the story of a man perpetually caught between art and business, between strength and weakness, between adoration and loneliness, between success and failure, between the movies and reality.
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