| | | A battle-scarred veteran of Hollywood takes aim.
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A satirical sock to Hollywood's kisser about a movie maker's attempts to make a flop into a racy R-rated box-office hit.Running Time: 121 min.Format: DVD MOVIE
"A glib satire on modern day Movieland...throws in everything from black humor to slapstick." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
Editor's Note
Based on his near-career-ending experience with the box-office disaster DARLING LILI, Blake Edwards fashioned a corrosive behind-the-scenes satire of the business in which he had long plied his trade.The film stars Richard Mulligan as Felix Farmer, a once-successful director whose career is on the slide because of the colossal failure of his $30 million G-rated musical. In desperation he hatches a plan to revive his career: Buy back the film and remake it, adding new pornographic footage to render it a more marketable box-office commodity. He believes that the key to the film's success will be the willingness of his ex-wife, Sally Miles (Julie Andrews), to dispense with her sweetly wholesome image and bare her breasts onscreen. To reach his goal, Farmer has to wade through a river of egomanical producers, wildly pretentious directors, knife-wielding industry gossips, sneaky editors, and even a dissipated doctor--or quack, as he prefers to be called. A broad, hugely entertaining attack on the hand that fed him, Edwards's film is among his best, with hilarious scenery chewing by William Holden (in his final film appearance), Loretta Swit, Larry Hagman, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, Robert Vaughn, Robert Webber, Robert Loggia, and no other Roberts among its seeming cast of thousands.
Plot Summary
When an embittered playwright's musical turns out to be a financial disaster, he decides to recut the film with some new footage to turn it into a softcore porn flick.
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 6/4/2002 |
| Running Time: 121 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1981 | | Catalog ID: 699 | | UPC: 00012569069923 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Chinese | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Golden Globe (1982) | | | Nominee, Best Motion Picture--Comedy/Musical |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...Edwards' proven abilities with physical comedy are maximized..." 06/24/1981New York Times
"...Edwards's newest, most manic, most bitter farce....The performances are wickedly right..." 07/01/1981 p.C21 |
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