Comedy, Drama
Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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A Film with Me in It
Akitsu Hot Springs
The Old Guard
Summer Night
Real Life
The Brain
Buck Privates Come Home
Hit the Ice
Nowhere Boy
Bust
Genius
Empire
Big House Blues
Fame
Mad Dog Coll
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
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The Believer
Under Capricorn
Crocodile Dundee
SIMILAR MOVIES
A Film with Me in It
IMDB 6 | Oct , 2008
A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deaths in their flat. Though the men didn't deliberately cause any of the incidents, they fear that they will be unfairly pegged as murderers if they relay information to the cops, and promptly set about disposing of the corpses in gruesome ways.Akitsu Hot Springs
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 1962
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.The Old Guard
IMDB 6.2 | Sep , 1960
Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countrysideSummer Night
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2016
Soyoung, a woman in 20s struggling between making a living and getting a real job, begins tutoring a high school senior Minjeong. One day, Minjeong asks Soyoung if they could reschedule a session.Real Life
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 1979
A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".The Brain
IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 1969
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.Buck Privates Come Home
IMDB 6.3 | Apr , 1947
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.Hit the Ice
IMDB 5.9 | Jun , 1943
After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an old friend and his band.Nowhere Boy
IMDB 7.2 | Dec , 2009
A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s Liverpool, England. Mimi's husband suddenly dies, and John spies his mother Julia at the funeral. Despite Mimi's misgivings, John intends to have a real relationship with his mother. Julia introduces him to popular music and the banjo and, though a family conflict looms, young John is inspired to form his own band.Bust
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2024
A trans cop with the New York City Police Department goes undercover to make a drug bust.Genius
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 2016
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.Empire
IMDB 10 | Sep , 2020
Joe, one of the great coffee cup artists of his generation, has lived for years as New York's self-proclaimed Godfather of Coffee Cups. Now he faces a changing world that is forgetting the classics.Big House Blues
IMDB 8.3 | Aug , 1990
Ren and Stimpy, on the streets starving, are captured by the dog catcher. They end up in the pound and become frightened when one of the dogs tells them of the "big sleep".Fame
IMDB 6.4 | May , 1980
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.Mad Dog Coll
IMDB 5.3 | May , 1961
Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
IMDB 6.1 | Jul , 2007
Firefighters Chuck Ford and Larry Valentine are guy's guys, loyal to the core—which is why when widower Larry asks Chuck to pose as his lover so that he can get domestic partner benefits for his kids, his buddy agrees. However, things get dicey when a bureaucrat comes calling, and the boys are forced to present a picture of domestic bliss.54
IMDB 5.9 | Aug , 1998
Shane O'Shea, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding another, more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind the infamous disco plucks Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, Shane not only gets his foot in the door, but lands a coveted job behind the bar - and a front-row ticket to the most legendary party on the planet.The Believer
IMDB 6.9 | Aug , 2001
A hardcore US racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant scholar whose questioning of the tenets of his faith has left him angry and confused, turning against those who he thinks have a tragic history of their own making.Under Capricorn
IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 1949
A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that binds them, struggle to rebuild their lives when a young newcomer stirs long-buried passions and secrets.Crocodile Dundee
IMDB 6.4 | Sep , 1986
When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Mick Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee negotiates the concrete jungle. He proves that his instincts are quite useful in the city and adeptly handles everything from wily muggers to high-society snoots without breaking a sweat.