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Burn Hollywood Burn

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Burn Hollywood Burn
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1hr 26min
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1997
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Walt Disney Video
Synopsis: First, a little background: in 1955, the Director's Guild of America created the pseudonym Alan Smithee, which film directors are allowed to use if they feel their work has been tampered with to such a degree that they no longer want the credit. (For example, if you look at the credits of the expanded and heavily narrated TV version of Dune, you'll notice the director is not listed as David Lynch, but as Alan Smithee.) An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn is a comedy about a film editor (played ... Full Synopsis
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An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn suffers from an overdose of meta. Not content to focus on a disconcerted director who just happens to be named Alan Smithee, nor to have actually become an Alan Smithee film when Arthur Hiller took his name off the project (seemingly a publicity stunt), the film also features people playing themselves, and several actors (Eric Idle, Ryan O'Neal) playing fictitious ... Full Review
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