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The Big Picture
Why this pick
A sharp, affectionate Hollywood satire about a young filmmaker discovering how quickly artistic ambition gets reshaped by studio machinery, echoing The Player’s industry-insider wit.
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MOVIE1992 2h 4m USA
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Why this pick
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The Last Shot
Why this pick
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S.O.B.
Why this pick
A caustic studio-era send-up full of desperate producers and ruthless image-management, matching The Player’s willingness to make Hollywood both glamorous and grotesque.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Griffin Mill is a Hollywood studio executive dating story editor Bonnie Sherow. He hears story pitches from screenwriters and decides which have the potential to be made into films, green-lighting only 12 out of 50,000 submissions every year. His job is threatened when up-and-coming story executive Larry Levy begins working at the studio. Mill has also been receiving death threat postcards, assumed to be from a screenwriter whose pitch he rejected.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Fred Ward
Walter Stuckel
Cynthia Stevenson
Bonnie Sherow
Vincent D'Onofrio
David Kahane
Randall Batinkoff
Reg Goldman
René Auberjonois
Himself
Robert Carradine
Himself
Paul Dooley
Himself
Louise Fletcher
Herself