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Actors: Lillo Brancato, Joseph D. Reitman, Daniel Baldwin, Angie Everhart, Costas Mandylor, Michael Madsen
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Real Deal |
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Vince Vasser, a Hollywood film producer, is sealing a very important deal at his Malibu estate. And there's a starlet ready to hop in the jacuzzi with him. Or so we think. It's actually his assistant Sammy Saxo (Brancato). We learn through a series of jumps in time that Saxo has been working for Vasser (Baldwin) for six years under humiliating conditions. Saxo has pulled together a deal without him and Vasser is now taking all the credit and money. Saxo's pal, Freddy has been a gopher taking similar abuse. Saxo is fired and now the pair is trying to still keep the million-dollar deal afloat while trying to cover their tracks since they've got Vasser, his wife (Everhart) and her tennis instructor (Mandylor) tied up.
This was a very difficult film to like in no small part because the actors advertised as being principals on the DVD box had barely any screen time, Madsen in particular. Brancato and Reitman are the main characters and aren't known well enough (now) to be given that credit, apparently. The film is also billed as a thriller, but it's filled with comedy. Whoever did the marketing should have been fired.
--ldpaulson, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Getting ahead in:
- entertainment world
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- con-artist/white collar crime
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- filmmaker/producer
Training/apprentice story
Yes
Abuse on the job story?
Yes
Vigilante/Revenge?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- producer/director
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) long girliemon hair
Body type
- (man) fat
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- producer/director
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) very short/crewcut
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
- wealthy
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
Any profanity?
- A huge amnt of foul language
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