
In front of the cameras and in public, famed Hollywood actress Honey Whitlock, a product of the studio system, is as sweet as her name. Behind the scenes, she is demanding and controlling, making life a nightmare for anyone who has to deal with her, especially her browbeaten assistant, Libby. She and her entourage are in Baltimore - what is emerging as the Hollywood of the east - for the premiere of her latest movie. The premiere gets hijacked by a group of guerrilla independ... (Full plot summary below)
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In front of the cameras and in public, famed Hollywood actress Honey Whitlock, a product of the studio system, is as sweet as her name. Behind the scenes, she is demanding and controlling, making life a nightmare for anyone who has to deal with her, especially her browbeaten assistant, Libby. She and her entourage are in Baltimore - what is emerging as the Hollywood of the east - for the premiere of her latest movie. The premiere gets hijacked by a group of guerrilla independent filmmakers, led by director Cecil B. DeMented, in wanting to make a statement against the Hollywood studio system and the bad movies they produce. Cecil and his band kidnap Honey in the process. What their goal is, with no money per se, to make their own movie starring Honey as a statement against the Hollywood studios. Their general process is to have the scripted elements of the movie, such as Honey's dialogue, being set against "real life" in they overtaking several of the Hollywood movie studio events in Baltimore, such as the filming of the sequel to Forrest Gump (1994). The main questions become if Honey, who is being forced to participate against her will, will truly change as a person and as an actress in seeing Cecil's vision, and how long Cecil and his group can continue in their kamikaze ways, overtaking the movie events in the city, in being the outlaws they have become.
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| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesAs always, Waters works with an unmistakable affection for even his grubbiest characters. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonWaters may have a budget ($9 million) and real Hollywood stars now, but he's still giving the finger to everything decent with his new film |
| San Diego Union-TribuneDavid ElliottThose of us who crave some relief from multiplex conformity and studio imperialism can laugh at some of the jibes in this silly film, but we know that Waters is not an alternative, just an ancillary attraction. |
| The NationStuart KlawansDoes this picture leap off the screen, or what? Yes, it leaps -- thanks to Melanie Griffith's eager participation in this act of revenge, Stephen Dorff's unbuttoned nuttiness...and Waters's knowing, caring intelligence about movie culture and its decline. |
| USA TodaySusan WloszczynaWhere once Waters was brilliantly polluted, now he comes off diluted. |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames Sanfordrather than escalate to new heights of lunacy, the movie begins repeating itself and, after about an hour, wearing out its welcome. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohTakes a potentially fun concept and basically goes nowhere with it. |
| Portland OregonianShawn LevyA small, scruffy, but agreeably energized comedy. |
| Salon.comStephanie ZacharekThis is a sweet-spirited movie about a nice bunch of kids having good clean fun. |
| Mr. ShowbizMichael AtkinsonAppears to have been written and directed by a grade-school dropout snorting airplane glue. |