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| ACTORS: | Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | George Huang |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 21 March, 1995 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Vidmark/Trimark |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Dolby, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 031398683735 |
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Customer Reviews of Swimming with Sharks
Outstanding Film...Clearly one of Spacey's best performances What I found curious though, was how they packaged this film on the cover. Hilarious?! This is not a comedy, trust me. It's a very dark, twisted drama if anything. Kevin Spacey plays a demanding studio boss who acquires a new intern, played sheepishly by actor Frank Whaley. Look for a cameo by Benicio
Del Toro, long before his Traffic film. What makes this film worth owning is the outstanding dialogue, highly quotable cut
downs, and belittlement that Spacey inflicts on his poor intern.
The intern feels that these are the things he must go through to be a big time sudio boss himself one day. However, when a woman comes between boss and intern, the intern snaps and kidnaps his boss. The intern then tortures him, and makes him realize all the humiliation he inflicted. This film also has a great plot twist you'll never see coming. For me, this film just solidified in my mind what an outstanding actor Kevin Spacey really is!
One of my Favorites...
I chanced upon this movie by accident. I rented it at Blockbuster because it starred Kevin Spacey and I think there was some comparison to Robert Altman's The Player, which I loved. I was unprepared for what I got. First, you have Spacey, my favorite actor currently working today in one of his most brilliant performances ever. I think his turn as Mel Proffit on Wiseguy is the only job he has done that I like better. Next, you have Frank Whaley, a talented young actor who slips between extremes of timid uncertainty at the beginning of his job with Buddy, to icy cool professionalism toward the end. He also shows a warm caring side with his girlfriend (played very smartly by the sexy Michelle Forbes) as well as a psychotic off the deep end side when he takes Spacey's character hostage. I loved it on first viewing. I found a used copy of it about a month later and purchased it immediately. I have watched this film about 25 times in the last 5 years, and it never gets old. It is fresh and blackly funny every time I watch it. One thing that I have noticed on many repeat viewings is that Spacey's Buddy Ackerman character is really a much nicer guy than he appears. It is my belief after viewing this film so many times that Buddy actually does care for Guy. You can see it in the little grins that he gives after he has reamed Guy out for something, and in the way that all of his advice is based on his own personal experience. I don't think that Buddy is lying when he tells Guy that after a year with him, Guy will be ready for anything. He is deliberately cruel in a very educational way. I believe that he is trying to get Guy to accept the realism of the terrible, unfair Hollywood system, and that he really does mean for Guy to follow in his footsteps, but is being intentionally brutal in an attempt to quickly teach Guy the lessons that it took Buddy himself 10 years to learn. I also think the ending is one of the most effective twists I have ever seen on film, and proves my point that Buddy actually does care about Guy and wants him to succeed.
This movie is a must see for anyone who is interested in the Hollywood studio system and wants to see a viciously funny black comedy. It is also highly recommended if you are a Kevin Spacey fan.
I'm really waiting to see a complete review of the quality on the DVD for this film before I go out and purchase it. This is definitely one of my top 10 favorite films of the last 5 or 6 years.
Buy it now and laugh yourself silly.
"YOU CAN'T SLEEP YOUR WAY TO THE TOP."
People see parallels with "The Player", which is valid, but I see "Sweet Smell of Success" in the biting dialogue and ammoral behavior.
This is a Hollywood sleeper, the inside story of a studio. It is said to be based on a big producer who is still in the biz.
Spacey just destroys Frank Whaley, turning him from a film school idealist to a killer. The best line is when Spacey informs Whaley of the facts of Hollywood life.
"You can't sleep your way to the top, like Dawn. We're guys. We gotta fight, and scratch, and claw our way up the ladder."
Don't wanna give away the ending, because like "The Player" it is genius, but it is absolutely damning. Check this out.
STEVEN TRAVERS
AUTHOR OF "BARRY BONDS: BASEBALL'S SUPERMAN"
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