A week in the life of powerful Hollywood producer Ben as he juggles negotiations with a studio head so that his newest picture can open at Cannes in two weeks, with a high-strung director who must make edits to the film, with an actor and his agent because the star has arrived on the set of a new picture with a full beard and his most recent ex-wife, Kelly, whom he discovers might have a lover. He also notices that his 17-year-old daughter from another marriage has been cryin... (Full plot summary below)
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A week in the life of powerful Hollywood producer Ben as he juggles negotiations with a studio head so that his newest picture can open at Cannes in two weeks, with a high-strung director who must make edits to the film, with an actor and his agent because the star has arrived on the set of a new picture with a full beard and his most recent ex-wife, Kelly, whom he discovers might have a lover. He also notices that his 17-year-old daughter from another marriage has been crying. What's up? Can Ben keep it all together, get the green light from the studio to go to Cannes, move his new picture past the beard crisis, and maybe return to Kelly's good graces?
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| Houston ChronicleAmy BiancolliThe sharpest Hollywood satire since The Player. |
| PopMattersCynthia FuchsLess an expose than a recap of what even casual observers of the industry know or intuit, What Just Happened relies on clichés even as it deplores them. |
| Denver PostLisa KennedyIn some ways, What Just Happened feels like an attempt to, if not make amends for moviemaking myopia, at least show how easily the contagion takes hold. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfLevinson's knowledge on the subject mixed with Linson's wonderland atmosphere of spoiled brats and spineless fools makes for a riveting, uproarious viewing experience. |
| New York PressArmond WhiteEvery joke in Tropic Thunder, The Player, The Muse, I'll Do Anything, even HBO's Entourage is sharper, more incisive and funnier than those in What Just Happened. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldA movie that's perfectly good, and yet not good enough. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA not very fresh or funny glimpse of power players in Hollywood. |
| Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzIt's another entertaining look at making films and a reminder that, with many of them, what goes on behind the scenes is the best part. |
| Hollywood.comPete HammondThe adult comedy surprise of the year. A fast moving, often hysterically funny little gem about the business called show. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIf, ultimately, What Just Happened? emerges as slightly less than the sum of its parts, those parts are very good indeed. |
