A comedy drama starring Christopher Plummer and the kid from Sky High, where an old drunk who used to work in the film business makes friends with a movie geek.
I’d say this is a good portrayal of people who work on film sets. Barring the director, producers, and stars they work their whole lives for crappy pay. Their wives divorce them because they’re gone all the time and the only excuse they have is that Jessica Simpson wouldn’t leave her trailer because she was crying because she is an idiot. Half the time they just dick around and eat from craft services so they get fat. They get home late and realize that their lives are of no immediate use to society so they drink themselves to sleep, and the only thing that keeps them from jumping off a bridge is the fact that Harrison Ford once told them to get off his shoelace and people love to hear that story in line at the post office or at the idiot convention. Then they get old and realize that they have no family, no health insurance, no savings, and only one functioning liver, but it’s all worth it in the end when you get to tell some pathetic bullied kid with no friends that you once took Orson Welles’ pants to get dry cleaned.
[…] Christopher Plummer, Michael Angarano, M. Emmet Walsh, Robert Wagner in the latest trailer for the comedy/drama about a movie geek that befriends an old filmmaker. The first trailer is here. […]