Chichester Cinema at New Park
What Just Happened?
Aging Hollywood producer Ben (Robert De Niro) is trying to breathe new life into his declining career. His reasons for this are very personal: a daughter who is growing up a bit too fast, two ex-wives and plenty of colleagues in the industry, all of whom would take pleasure in his humiliation.
Having to finish his new film on a brutally short schedule is turning Ben’s life into a living hell. Everything is made all the worse by the studio chief Lou, the neurotic agent Dick (John Turturro), a screenwriter named Scott and the ambitious British director Jeremy (Michael Wincott) – and worst of all, the audience in the first test screening, who loathe his film’s harsh finale.
With this comedy based on the autobiographical book of the same name by Hollywood producer Art Linson (who also wrote the screenplay), director Barry Levinson takes a dig at his fellow filmmakers and ties in to the genre of classic Hollywood satire and his own successful 1997 film Wag the Dog.
The star-studded film includes Bruce Willis, Sean Penn and Stanley Tucci, and had its world premiere at the 2008 Sundance festival and enjoyed the keen interest of the audience at the closing ceremony at Cannes this year.
USA · 2008 · Barry Levinson · 100min
