![]() ![]() Dickson's spoofing of the "high concept" bias of Hollywood, as when a waiter come p with a female "Deliverance" is dated and superficial. Purporting to be about "the triumph of the human spirit", this storyline is relentlessly gauche, no matter how Moses changes it to fit the needs of each listening producer. Moses' script is a ridiculous post-apocalyptic version of "No Exit", with archetypal characters stuck in a shelter after World War III, arguing. Just when the picture starts to get going on the basis of Landers' helpful advice, it's over. He finally finds a sympathetic ear in no-nonsense producer Harry Landers. In the opening reel, the destitute hero is stuck with the check twice at meetings with venal producers Ron Karabatsos and Richard Romanus. ![]() Filmed in 1987 with the title "Pitch", the film unfolds oppressively like a silent-era or Hugo Haas 1950s tale of woe. Worse still, the film's "illustrated" segments meant to portray Moses' endlessly pitched screen treatment are poorly staged, on a poverty row level. Filmmaker Lance Dickon commits the grave error of writing a naive, cliched heart-on-sleeve script that's not much better than the weak story plot line espoused by struggling hero Mark Moses. The corny hem of how difficult it is to break in as a Hollywood scripter becomes a threadbare feature film "Hollywood Heartbreak", which might have worked as a two-reeler. My review was written in October 1990 after watching the movie on Raedon video cassette. ![]()
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