The Slaves of Hollywood

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Mild-mannered Fisher Lovelace (Harper) has just arrived in Los Angeles with dreams of becoming the next big music producer, just like his hero Puff Daddy. Fisher takes a job working as an assistant to the Producer known as "The King of Music Videos" and quickly finds himself sucked into the underbelly of Hollywood-a world of endless partying, nightclubs, decadence and debauchery. As Fisher struggles to maintain his sanity, he meets fellow Hollywood aspirants Paulette, Thomas, Pink, Fisher, Dean and Roman-all of whom are also working as personal assistants to powerful Hollywood moguls and have hteir own stories of workplace hell. Together, they hatch a plot which will solve all of their problems but might also cost them their lives!

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WALL STREET of Hollywood Movies
Hilarious!

The Slaves of Hollywood
Starring: Hill Harper , Howard Scott , Nicholas Worth , Andre Barron , and Tim Duquette
Director: Terry Keefe (II) , and Michael Z. Wechsler
Manufacturer: M2k
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000055ZL8
Release Date: 2001-05-16

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Note to young filmmakers: No matter how awful your experience in Hollywood, no matter how surreal the insular town appears to you, please, know your film history and resist the urge to make yet another movie about the topic. Corrupt, callous exposes of Hollywood movers, shakers, and players have been done so many time over the years that it's become a tired subgenre not even worth parodying. This didn't stop first-time filmmakers Michael Wechsler and Terry Keefe, who based their debut, Slaves of Hollywood, on their personal experiences as assistants in Tinseltown. Assistants are entry-level positions in Hollywood, but as this film's five protagonists show us, essentially it's grunt work: they get coffee, sort mail, baby-sit executives' kids, and endure verbal abuse. Wechsler and Keefe try mixing satire with documentary realism (the plot revolves around a studio mogul's daughter's low- budget documentary about assistants and "how Hollywood changes people"), but we've seen this all before in films ranging from The Player to, specifically, Swimming with Sharks. Though it's billed as a black comedy, there's rarely much to make us laugh. The writing is so overwrought and the performances one-note and over-the-top that most of the gags bomb awkwardly. Satire needs to sting sharply to work, and unfortunately Slaves of Hollywood fails to be as ruthless as those it tries to mock. --Dave McCoy

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WALL STREET of Hollywood Movies.......2000-06-25

This film is really funny. If you're thinking about working in Hollywood or want to know what it's like, this film is the WALL STREET of the Making-It-In-Hollywood genre. Better than SWIMMING WITH SHARKS and a lot funnier.

Hilarious!.......2000-02-26

This is one of the funniest Hollywood satires ever! Check out this indie gem and be ready for an evening of laughter and insight! Terry Keefe and Mike Wechsler are two names to watch.

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