
Playing It Cool(2014)
A young man meets and instantly falls in love with an engaged woman.



Albert Brooks
Steven Phillips

Sharon Stone
Sarah Little

Andie MacDowell
Laura Phillips

Jeff Bridges
Jack Warrick

Cybill Shepherd
Self
Monica Mikala
Julie Phillips
Jamie Alexis
Mary Phillips
Marnie Shelton
Jennifer

Catherine MacNeal
Anne

Mark Feuerstein
Josh Martin
The Muse is a fantasy, comedy, romance film released in 1999 exploring themes of screenwriter, muse. Directed by Albert Brooks, it stars Albert Brooks, Sharon Stone, Andie MacDowell. With his career on the skids, a Hollywood screenwriter enlists the aid of a modern-day muse, who proves to test his patience.
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Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

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Four stories intersect in this violent film parody. Exterminators dress as hit men and try to protect the wife of their boss, Montello. Meanwhile, the strippers at Montello's strip club, dressed as nuns, attempt to rob him. Tag-team wrestlers steal Montello's briefcase, thinking its contents are valuable. Finally, Bumpkin, running to deliver a script, loses a lot of the pages.

A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.

HECKLER is a comedic feature documentary exploring the increasingly critical world we live in. After starring in a film that was critically bashed, Jamie Kennedy takes on hecklers and critics and ask some interesting questions of people such as George Lucas, Bill Maher, Mike Ditka, Rob Zombie, Howie Mandel and many more. This fast moving, hilarious documentary pulls no punches as you see an uncensored look at just how nasty and mean the fight is between those in the spotlight and those in the dark.

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.

Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?