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A comedy about fame and fortune and a guy who has no chance at either.

2000 · 89 min · ★ 4.2 · Comedy

A film director decides to chart the course of a young actor as he tries to make it in Hollywood...

Directed by Adam Rifkin · Written by Shawn Ryan

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