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Mistress
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R,1hr 50min
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1992
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Geneon
Synopsis: Successful character actor Barry Primus spent seven years trying to get financing for his feature debut as a writer-director, Mistress. In the film, a once-promising writer-director, Marvin Landisman (Robert Wuhl), who now directs instructional videos, is sitting home one night, watching his own print of Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion, when he gets a strange phone call. A producer, Jack Roth (Martin Landau), formerly a bigwig at Universal, tells Marvin he was cleaning out his office when he came across ... Full Synopsis
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An inside look at low-level Hollywood deal making, Mistress was released just a few months after Robert Altman's The Player, and suffered from the comparison. While The Player is slick and jaunty, and features a wealth of A-list cameos, Mistress is more sweaty and desperate, and features cameos by Christopher Walken and Ernest Borgnine. Primus clearly based Mistress partly on his own experiences in ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Marvin Landisman
Jack Roth
Evan M. Wright
Carmine Rasso
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