Film

Swimming with Sharks 1994

Directed by George Huang

  • Crime, Comedy
  • 93 min
  • R

In Hollywood his dreams could come true. But first he has to make coffee.

Guy is a young film executive who's willing to do whatever it takes to make it in Hollywood. He begins working for famed producer Buddy Ackerman, a domineering, manipulative, coldhearted boss. When Guy also finds out that his cynical girlfriend, Dawn, has been using sex as a career move, he reaches his limit. Guy decides to exact revenge on Buddy by kidnapping him and subjecting him to cruel and unusual punishment.

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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and comic.

  • contemporarynostalgic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • intimateepic
  • gravecomic
  • unpretentiousprestige

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