His Real Life Was The Biggest Fantasy Of All.
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
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Classical in form, intimate, spare and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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Cast
- Jamie DornanDanny Tate
- Peter DinklageHervé Villechaize
- Mireille EnosKathy Self
- Oona ChaplinKatie
- Harriet WalterBaskin
- Jim SturgeonKoski
- Andy GarciaRicardo Montalban
- Helena MattssonBritt Ekland
- David StrathairnMarty Rothstein
- Wallace LanghamAaron Spelling
Crew
- Sacha GervasiDirector
- Sacha GervasiScreenplay
- Maryse AlbertiDirector of Photography
- David NorlandOriginal Music Composer
- Carol LittletonEditor
- Nathalie TannerProducer
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