Hollywood North
The Camera Doesn't Lie...It's The People Behind It.
Bobby (Matthew Modine) is a novice producer who buys the film rights to Lantern Moon, a classic Canadian novel. with his script and vision, Bobby is seeing gold. Of course, that's before Hollywood gets its hands on it.
After an aging actor's (Alan Bates) plunge into paranoid insanity, casting an oversexed actress (Jennifer Tilly) notorious for her on-set affairs, the collapse of Bobby's vision, and an on-hand filmmaker (Deborah Unger) catching the entire debacle, Lantern Moon and Bobby's dream spiral out of control.
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Fun Mockery of American Films - FilmJunkie
This is a very funny Canadian film about trying to make the kinds of movies they make in that country down South without completely selling out...and then totally selling out.
They attempt to adapt a beloved Canadian novel to the big screen, but to get the kind of budget they want they must attract a Hollywood star, who turns out to be batshit crazy. The setting, premise and moral of the film are all changed to make the actor happy and the whole thing falls apart under his weight.
Thus this is a film about making a film, the fake film is set in 1950's Cuba, while the actual film is set in 1970's Toronto. The actual film stars an American, Matthew Modine, with a large supporting cast of Canucks. From Jennifer Tilly to the mindless starlet who 'hates real life' to Deborah Kara Unger as the documentarian capturing the madness of the fake film to Alan Thicke as the financier who seems to know nothing about Hollywood.
This film is sharp and original and is especially prevalent in this day and age when Canada is the setting for hundreds of American films and TV shows.
I laughed, what more can I say?
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Fun Mockery of American Films - FilmJunkie
This is a very funny Canadian film about trying to make the kinds of movies they make in that country down South without completely selling out...and then totally selling out.
They attempt to adapt a beloved Canadian novel to the big screen, but to ...