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Synopsis: A week in the life of Ben, a powerful Hollywood producer, as he juggles negotiations with a studio head so that his newest picture can open at Cannes in two weeks, with a high-strung director who must make edits to the film, with an actor and his agent because the star has arrived on the set of a new picture with a full beard, and with his most recent ex-wife, Kelly, whom he discovers may have a lover. He also notices that his 17-year old daughter, from another marriage, has probably been crying. What's up? Can Ben keep it all together, get the green light from the studio to go to Cannes, move his new picture past the beard crisis, and maybe return to Kelly's good graces?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Barry Levinson
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
51%
R
Year:
2008
104 min
$1,043,419
Website
355 Views


- Did you work out the G5?

LOU:
Yes.

I gotta smoke on the plane.

- We're gonna lose money.

- How do you know?

- A lot of money.

- You know this before it's done?

That's right.

- Even before the DVD comes out?

- Pretty much.

[HARMONICA MUSIC PLAYING

ON STEREO]

[MUSIC STOPS]

[HAZARD LIGHT CLICKING]

[ALARM CLOCK CHIMING]

I did try to call Jeremy

after the screening.

MAN:
You seemed reluctant.

- I was not.

He's the director, for God's sakes.

If I did say:

"F*** me, why should this be easy?"

That doesn't mean I'm not enthusiastic.

- You're feeling good about last night?

- Yes.

As I was saying,

I am very enthusiastic...

...and it's a little too soon

to get excited...

...but all signs to me say,

between us, through the roof.

- Through the roof? That's great.

- Yeah.

- That's great.

- Did you see this?

- About Jack?

- Yeah, did you hear about it?

- Yeah, I couldn't believe it.

- Yeah.

Yeah, it's terrible.

I'm looking at this headline.

Who would have guessed?

He was doing so well, right?

"Ten percenter

puts himself in turn around."

Bad joke.

Yeah, it's page one, that's cold.

But you still gotta admit

it's pretty funny, don't you think?

I can see how sympathetic you are.

Argh.

Oh, come

I'm on my way.

Yeah, I'll be there in two minutes.

No, I'm not late at all.

I'm not late, they'll be there

in plenty of time. That I promise.

They will be there on time. Hello?

Hello? Hello?

MAX:

Hi, Daddy.

- Morning, gorgeouses.

SOPHIE:
Hi, Daddy.

Who dresses you guys?

MAX:
We do.

SOPHIE:
We do.

MAX:
Mom wants to ask you something.

BEN:
Now?

SOPHIE:
She said it's okay

for you to go in the house...

...instead of using your cell phone.

BEN:
Okay, I'll be right back.

Get in the car

and buckle yourselves up.

SOPHIE:

Okay.

BEN:

Kelly, I said I would do it.

You always say you'll do it,

but you don't.

I know, I'm under siege. I realize I

always say it, but this time it's true.

- For all of us.

- I'll do it, I'll take the kids this weekend.

A grand total of 90 minutes per day

of video and TV.

- Or the kids can't stay over.

- I know.

BEN:
Where's the old sofa chair?

- I'm having it re-covered.

- I miss it.

- You miss the chair?

I love that chair.

I sat in it all the time.

I even remember

how much I paid for it.

Okay, Ben, let's play by the rules.

I thought our last session

went really well, didn't you?

Yeah, but this therapy is called

"How to Learn to Live Apart."

So we can move on gracefully.

Well, I still have feelings.

So do I.

That dark green velvet

was such a good look for that chair.

What? I felt like a change.

[CAR HORN HONKING]

Can I call you?

[SIGHS]

Yeah. Of course.

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Art Linson

Art Linson (born 1942) is an American film producer, director and screenwriter.Linson was born in Chicago, Illinois. He did his undergraduate work at the University of California-Berkeley and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles law school. Art Linson's producing credits range from such commercial and critical hits as The Untouchables, Heat, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Fight Club, and Scrooged, to unusual classics such as Melvin and Howard, The Edge, This Boy's Life and Into the Wild. Linson's producer/director collaborations include Brian De Palma, David Mamet and Cameron Crowe. His directorial debut was the 1980 comedy, Where the Buffalo Roam, which was loosely based on stories by Hunter S. Thompson and starred Bill Murray as the writer. His writing credits include two books, What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line, which was adapted into a film from his original screenplay What Just Happened and starred Robert De Niro, and A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywood. He is married to British actress Fiona Lewis. For television he is currently executive producer with his son John Linson on Sons of Anarchy. In 2016, Art produced and penned the movie The Comedian directed by Taylor Hackford. The film starred Robert De Niro and Leslie Mann. Also in 2016 Art produced The Outsider, a crime drama film directed by Martin Zandvliet and written by Andrew Baldwin. The film stars Oscar winner Jared Leto and Tadanobu Asano. more…

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