New Suit
A lie tailor-made for Hollywood.
Kevin Taylor is a young screenwriter with a dream, but his unfortunate reality is fetching coffee (and hookers) for a washed-up producer and listening to his colleagues' mouth off about scripts they've never head. One day he jokingly mentions a "hot" script that doesn't exist. Soon half of Hollywood wants the script, while the other half pretends they've already gotten, read, loved, optioned and financed it. Deftly satirizing Hollywood's inane ability to embrace only the most (literally) hollow ideas, New Suit stylistically exposes the truth: It's not the package but the packaging that counts.
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Takes things just too far enough - thenewguy
New Suit is a comedy about a young writer trying to make his way in Hollywood. One day, in a moment of insight and frustration, he tells his peers about a hot new script that's going to be big. Not wanting to admit they haven't heard of the fictional script, his fellow Hollywooders agree it's a great script. Then they go looking for it.
Soon the whole town is after the made-up script and people can't stop talking about it or its mysterious author. Kevin tries to put the brakes on, but the roll is already rolling and it's too late to convince people they're chasing nothing.
It's a fun film which pokes at the fakeness of Hollywood and how people can get so caught up in a lie they don't want to believe in the truth anymore.
Most of the cast is either fresh faces or smaller actors and it's nice to see them work as they don't have to work past their own images. Though apparently a small film, the quality is high, the writing is good and I enjoyed the satirical approach.
Of special mention, the sound track is quite good. The music fits the mood well and the finale "This is Hollywood" is fantastic.
The only reason I didn't give this flick five stars is it's pretty much focused on its one concept and chasing a fake script only provides so much material. A solid movie, but could have benefited from a bit more variety in its plot.New Actors - Picker_of_Movies
As the opening credits roled I realized I'd never heard of any of these actors and I was a bit scared. I've rented no name low budget movies from Zip before and my experience has ranged from beening very disappointed to mildly disappointed. This movie is very well made, well acted and reasonably well written. You will have to believe that hollywood people are all very dumb or at least very very self-delusional. The movie is fun, smart and sharp. Its no Bowfinger but then there is no actual script in this movie. If you like watching Hollywood make fun of itself then check out this movie.
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Takes things just too far enough - thenewguy
New Suit is a comedy about a young writer trying to make his way in Hollywood. One day, in a moment of insight and frustration, he tells his peers about a hot new script that's going to be big. Not wanting to admit they haven't heard of the fictional script, ...New Actors - Picker_of_Movies
As the opening credits roled I realized I'd never heard of any of these actors and I was a bit scared. I've rented no name low budget movies from Zip before and my experience has ranged from beening very disappointed to mildly disappointed. This movie is very ...