Director Alan Smithee comes to Hollywood to make a movie. Due to a variety of factors, he decides to disown it and direct it under a pseudonym. Unfortunately, the Director's Guild requires that if a director disowns a movie in this fashion, he *must* use the official Director's Guild pseudonym...which happens to be Alan Smithee.... (Full plot summary below)
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Director Alan Smithee comes to Hollywood to make a movie. Due to a variety of factors, he decides to disown it and direct it under a pseudonym. Unfortunately, the Director's Guild requires that if a director disowns a movie in this fashion, he *must* use the official Director's Guild pseudonym...which happens to be Alan Smithee.
Leave your thoughts about An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn.
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonIt's unafraid of the consequences of its existence, and it's brutally nasty , offensive, and abrasive. In other words, the kind of comedy they used to make in the 70's before things became politically correct. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanWhat turns the witlessness rancid is the way the movie is saturated in the very corruption it thinks it's ridiculing. |
| Apollo GuideGuy MacPhersonIn an ironic twist of fate, the actual director (Arthur Hiller) wanted his name off the real finished product, pulling an 'Alan Smithee.' Now THAT'S funny. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Jeff ViceAn Alan Smithee Film -- Burn, Hollywood, Burn might have one of the worst titles ever thought up, but then it is fully in keeping with the movie's self-destructive tendencies. |
| San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserWhen Arthur Hiller, who directed An Alan Smithee Film, wanted his named taken off the picture (no doubt over a question of artistic integrity), the producers had themselves a genuine Alan Smithee film. Isn't Hollywood grand! |
| VarietyTodd McCarthyA caustic but under-funny "expose" of the venality of the motion picture business. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA comedy without laughs, an expose without point. |
| Seattle TimesJohn HartlThe level of humor could be called sophomoric, but that would insult most sophomores. |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergIt's truly as bad as everyone says. I went in to the flick wanting to like it, so I could argue with all the naysayers. Experiment failed. |
| TV GuideMaitland McDonaghA crude, vulgar satire of Hollywood shallowness, insincerity and moral bankruptcy. |
