Actor Barry Primus turns in a creditable job as writer-director of this interesting The Player-style Hollywood dark comedy that intrigues and involves without actually exciting or amusing very much. Part of the problem is Robert Wuhl's slightly lacklustre star turn as a writer-director who, at has-been producer Martin Landau's urging, pitches his script to money men Eli Wallach, Danny Aiello and Robert De Niro, all of whom want to cast their various mistresses in the lead. With players like these, things can't help being lively, though it's old-timer Wallach who outshines everybody. Sad to say some of the writing's a bit shaky and the direction wobbly in an often over-extended and murky-looking movie that betrays Primus's lack of experience. But there are some fine scenes and showy performances in a pretty truthful-seeming Tinseltown satire that's not at all bad.

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