Studio head Joe Mulholland (Walter Matthau) promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz (Vincent Gardenia), to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction book into a narrative movie, Mulholland enlists the services of Herb Dorman (Charles Grodin), a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane (Bill Macy) to help him create a movie.
producer, dying person, screenwriter, director, fiancée, mentor, amusing, unrestrained, hollywood, calif., movie studio, filmmaking, romance, marital problems, relationships, struggle, sex, underdog, love, 1980s
A terrible terrible movie... and it even has Walter Matthau in it.
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