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Just Write
USA 1997
produced by Heath McLaughlin, Jim Kreutzer (executive) for Wild Chill Productions
directed by Andrew Gallerani
starring Sherilynn Fenn, Jeremy Piven, JoBeth Williams, Wallace Shawn, Alex Rocco, Jeffrey D.Sams, Costas Mandylor, Yeardley Smith, Holland Taylor, Anita Barone, Bellina Logan, Stephanie Miller, Nancy McKeon, Ed McMahon, Anthony Galea, Callista Gallerani, Gian-Mical Gallerani, Todd Susman, Joycee Katz, Dorian Gregory, Lara Bierner, Joseph Arsenault, Robert Nelson, John Fleck, Michael Pointer, John Haxby, Brian To, Mimi Craven, Lou Cutell, Marcy Goldman, Rose Shumow, Bill Pugin, Jack Manning, Barbara Perry, Josh Keaton, Mary-Pat Green, Heath McLaughlin, Jay Leno
written by Stan Williamson, music by Leland Bond
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Harold (Jeremy Piven) is a Hollywood tourbus driver, and he loves his
job because he loves movies. and he loves up-and-coming actress Amanda
Clark (Sherilyn Fenn) - from a distance of course, because she's an
actress and he's a mere tourbus driver. Then though, by mere chance, he
meets her in person, and for some reason claims to be a scriptwriter - and
it happens she's unhappy with the script of her upcoming movie and asks
him to rewrite it. The two soon start to go out on a couple of rather
innocent dates, too, and the closer they get, the more problematic it gets
for Harold, because now it gets harder and harder to tell her he's not a
scriptwriter but a tourbus driver. Meanwhile, Amanda's unscrupulous agent
Sid (JoBeth Williams) has figured out there's something not quite right
with the alleged scriptwriter her client is going out with, and she makes
sure Amanda finds Harold in a compromising situation. And then there's
Harold's dad (Alex Rosso), who does his part in messing up things ... It
all ends happily though when Harold finally owns up to being a tourbus
driver and still manage to deliver a smashing rewrite of Amanda's script.
Of course he gets the girl in the end. Just Write is a
film that has its moments - there is some biting Hollywood satire in here,
and some scenes that are almost reminiscent of Woody Allen's better films. However,
on the whole, the film is just pointless, mainly because it's way too
harmless on one hand, and too predictable on the other. And despite some
satirical interludes, the film never goes beneath Hollywood's shiny
surfaces. Oh, and Sherilyn Fenn's character remains disappointingly
one-dimensional throughout - rather ironically, because in the beginning
of the film she asks Jeremy Piven's character to rewrite her script
because she thinks her character in there is too one-dimensional. That
all said, as a run-of-the-mill romantic comedy, Just Write isn't
too bad, either, it's less tear-jerking and sugar-coated than most films
of its ilk, treats its subject unexcited and subtle where other films go
painfully over-the-top, and it features a decent and likeable cast. Still
no masterpiece, but at least watchable.
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