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The Slaves of Hollywood DVD

Unrated :: M2k :: Released: 2001-05-16

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Rank: #164906	Rating:
	5.0/5 (2 Reviews)

5/5 WALL STREET of Hollywood Movies
by Zack Mann (New York City)
This film is really funny. If you're thinking about working in Hollywood or want to know what it's like, this film is the WALL STREET of the Making-It-In-Hollywood genre. Better than SWIMMING WITH SHARKS and a lot funnier.

5/5 Hilarious!
by Alex Simon (Los Angeles, California USA)
This is one of the funniest Hollywood satires ever! Check out this indie gem and be ready for an evening of laughter and insight! Terry Keefe and Mike Wechsler are two names to watch.

The Slaves of Hollywood Summary Studio: Ingram Entertainment Release Date: 06/17/2003

Note to young filmmakers: No matter how awful your experience in Hollywood, no matter how surreal the insular town appears to you, please, know your film history and resist the urge to make yet another movie about the topic. Corrupt, callous exposes of Hollywood movers, shakers, and players have been done so many time over the years that it's become a tired subgenre not even worth parodying. This didn't stop first-time filmmakers Michael Wechsler and Terry Keefe, who based their debut, Slaves of Hollywood, on their personal experiences as assistants in Tinseltown. Assistants are entry-level positions in Hollywood, but as this film's five protagonists show us, essentially it's grunt work: they get coffee, sort mail, baby-sit executives' kids, and endure verbal abuse. Wechsler and Keefe try mixing satire with documentary realism (the plot revolves around a studio mogul's daughter's low- budget documentary about assistants and "how Hollywood changes people"), but we've seen this all before in films ranging from The Player to, specifically, Swimming with Sharks. Though it's billed as a black comedy, there's rarely much to make us laugh. The writing is so overwrought and the performances one-note and over-the-top that most of the gags bomb awkwardly. Satire needs to sting sharply to work, and unfortunately Slaves of Hollywood fails to be as ruthless as those it tries to mock. --Dave McCoy

Slaves of Hollywood DVD Techincal Details Cast: Hill Harper, Howard Scott, Nicholas Worth, Andre Barron
Director: Michael Z. Wechsler Array
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Rated: Unrated
Running Time: 73 mins
UPC: 072254814894
Binding: DVD
Studio: M2k
Release Date: 2001-05-16
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Specs: Color, NTSC

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