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A comedy about a screenwriter (Robert Wuhl), whose old movie script is read by a producer (Martin Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Danny Aiello, Robert De Niro, and Eli Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers, until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.
Having had some stage success in New York prior to moving to the west coast, Marvin Landisman once had much promise as a writer/director in Hollywood, that is until "the incident" several years ago which still haunts him and his movie career, he having pedaled several scripts since without anyone showing interest. He is now resorting to directing low budget instructional videos for clients he doesnt much like, and while his wife Rachel Landisman is currently back in New York to try and open a restaurant in her want for them to move back to the east coast where they had a happier life, he generally lives like a poor hermit. So it is with some surprise that he receives a call from Jack Roth, a former studio producer, who wants to produce one of his earlier "post-incident" scripts, the somewhat depressing "The Darkness and the Light", it arguably the most personal of his scripts to him. As such, Marvins one non-negotiable item is to direct the project himself. Jack is on the downward side of his own career, and as such, in his role of chief fundraiser, does whatever he can to make connections to the established or potential movers and shakers in the business, which includes hiring as his right hand man inexperienced Stuart Stratland, Jr. solely for his connection to "Sr." In terms of the actual investors, Jack finds a disparate group of three who cannot or will not finance the entire project each on his own, they all having a common want in return for their money: to cast his respective mistress in the most prominent female role, each of those three with varying degrees of talent, or non-talent as the case may be, each of the three women who, in addition, brings her own baggage into the process. The question becomes how much Marvin is willing to compromise what was his vision for the project to keep especially the investors and their mistresses happy.
Robert Wuhl
Marvin Landisman
Martin Landau
Jack Roth
Vasek Simek
Hans
Thomas R. Voth
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Jace Alexander
Stuart Stratland, Jr.
Mary Mercier
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Peggy Pauline
Eli Wallach
George Lieberhoff
Danny Aiello
Carmine Rasso
Jean Smart
Patricia Riley
Robert De Niro
Evan M. Wright
William L. Rotko
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Dimitri Dimitrov
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Sheryl Lee Ralph
Beverly Dumont
Chuck Low
Bernie
Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine
Laurie Metcalf
Rachel Landisman
Fríða Aradóttir
Mrs. Evan M. Wright
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