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Swimming With Sharks

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Swimming With Sharks
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R,1hr 33min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1994
Director:
George Huang
Distributor:
Lions Gate
Starring:
Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley, Michelle Forbes  ...more
Synopsis: Originally screened at Telluride as The Buddy Factor, Swimming With Sharks is an uneven but engrossing picture, and a possible warning to anyone with plans to break into the motion-picture business. When Guy (Frank Whaley), a recent film-school graduate with big ideas, takes a job as assistant to major studio executive Buddy Ackerman (Kevin Spacey), he believes his ship has finally come in; little does he know it's a slave ship, for his boss is indeed worse than a slave driver. Buddy delights in ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Hastings, AMG Review
Writer/director George Huang's vitriolic 1994 debut is perhaps most notable for the blistering, caustic turn by Kevin Spacey as remorseless studio executive Buddy Ackerman. Spacey's Buddy is a different kind of Hollywood monster: physically compact and unusually soft-spoken, he's like a seething volcano that erupts only sporadically, when people least expect it. Spacey has the good sense to underplay ... Full Review
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Kevin Spacey
Buddy Ackerman
Frank Whaley
Guy
Michelle Forbes
Dawn Lockard
Benicio Del Toro
Rex
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