Summaries

A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation.

FBI director Jack Devine always sets up his brother Joe as undercover to trick mobsters. His latest cover is as movie producer Joe Diamond, to get Tommy Sanz for Teamster racketeering. His cover requires a script - the one movie theater manager Steven Schats and his brother Marshall 'Paris' wrote, supposedly a cancer biopic. So Steven is hired as director, his greatest dream, even if producing an Arizona desert drama on Rhode Island is far from ideal. When a former Oscar nominee volunteers to star, the cover gets out of hand till everyone believes in it, even the FBI brass- or not?—KGF Vissers

Straight shooter agent Joe Devine has been assigned to cook up an elaborate scheme to take down infamous mob boss John Gotti. He assumes the role of a Hollywood producer and tells all the right lies to enlist a stooge to help execute his sting. He finds unsuspecting wannabe director Steven Schatz, who'd do just about everything to get the chance to direct a feature. Schatz falls hook, line, and sinker for the pitch, but what Devine doesn't tell Schatz is that the movie will never be made. Everything goes according to plan - until Devine and the suits at the Bureau start enjoying their new lives as Hollywood players a bit too much.—Sujit R. Varma

Details

Keywords
  • deception
  • film within a film
  • urination
  • giallo
  • grauman's chinese theatre los angeles
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Romance
Release date Nov 4, 2004
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Rhode Island, USA
Production companies Touchstone Pictures Mandeville Films Morra, Brezner, Steinberg and Tenenbaum Entertainment (MBST)

Box office

Gross US & Canada $464275
Opening weekend US & Canada $164801
Gross worldwide $541330

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 33m
Color Color
Sound mix DTS Dolby Digital SDDS
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

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