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What Just Happened (2008) -- This is the trailer for What Just Happened?, directed by Barry Levinson.
What Just Happened (2008) -- Robert De Niro stars in this comedy about a Hollywood producer's troubles getting his movie made
What Just Happened (2008) -- Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer (De Niro) who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made.

Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Barry Levinson
Writers (WGA):
Art Linson (written by)
Art Linson (book)
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Release Date:
28 November 2008 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
In Hollywood, everybody can hear you scream. more
Plot:
Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made. full summary | full synopsis
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(65 articles)
134 New Names Invited to Join the Academy
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User Comments:
A hilarious look at the way Hollywood works more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Robert De Niro ... Ben

Sean Penn ... Himself

Catherine Keener ... Lou Tarnow

Bruce Willis ... Actor

John Turturro ... Dick Bell

Robin Wright Penn ... Kelly

Stanley Tucci ... Scott Solomon

Kristen Stewart ... Zoe
Michael Wincott ... Jeremy Brunell
Jason Kravits ... Pollster (as Jason Kravitz)

Mark Ivanir ... Johnny
Remy K. Selma ... Jimmy (as Remy Selma)
Christopher Evan Welch ... Studio Marketing Guy

Lily Rabe ... Dawn
Sam Levinson ... Carl
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for language, some violent images, sexual content and some drug material.
Runtime:
104 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Hebrew | French
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS

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Trivia:
The film's tagline "In Hollywood, everybody can hear you scream" is a play on Alien (1979)'s famous tagline "In space no one can hear you scream." more
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References Amores perros (2000) more
Soundtrack:
Flow of Experience more

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
A hilarious look at the way Hollywood works, 8 April 2009
8/10
Author: lopcar1993 from United States

You wouldn't want to make a steady diet of inside-Hollywood satires ("The Player," "Tropic Thunder"), but Barry Levinson serves a suitably savory morsel with "What Just Happened?," a finely observed and occasionally outright hilarious glimpse at the most treacherous inner workings of Tinseltown. As gratifying as it always is to laugh at the movie industry's most appalling excesses, the biggest pleasure of "What Just Happened?" is watching Robert De Niro deliver one of his most understated and genuinely affecting performances in recent years. Here he plays a veteran producer named Ben who is juggling two ex-wives, two movies with problems, a midlife crisis, a troubled teenage daughter and various agents, studio executives and apparatchiks who give him no end of tsoris. (Sometimes Yiddish is the only linguistic resort.) Written by real-life producer Art Linson and based on his memoir, "What Just Happened?" brims with juicy inside jokes and cameos, including Bruce Willis as the apotheosis of the temperamental star; Sean Penn, demanding a private jet to Cannes so he can smoke on the plane; and Robin Wright Penn as Ben's second ex-wife, for whom he harbors unresolved feelings. Sometimes silly, often scathingly funny, "What Just Happened?" finally possesses a winning mix of toughness and heart.

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