Swimming with Sharks (1994)

Release date: 1995-04-21
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: George Huang
Production Co: Cineville, Keystone Studios, Mama'Z Boy Entertainment
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Rating: 7.1/10
Length: 1h 33min

Storyline

A young Hollywood executive becomes the assistant to a big time movie producer who is the worst boss imaginable: abusive, abrasive and cruel. But soon things turn around when the young executive kidnaps his boss and visits all the cruelties back on him.

Plot Keywords

black comedy, manager, sadist, showbiz, animal in title, cynicism, irreverence, throwing something at someone, murder, class differences, behind the scenes, ambition, spit, surprise ending, independent film, hollywood california, bully, coffee, receptionist, satire

Short Review

The picture's raison d'être has to be Spacey's 'loud and nasty' performance: he's the sort of actor who grabs you by the throat and beats you about the head without ever lifting his feet from the desk.