What is the title of the film about a video clerk with a movie obsessed imagination?
Question by Ash: What is the title of the film about a video clerk with a movie obsessed imagination?
It involves a video store clerk, whose advice has lead his friends to success(football player, new reporter, and writer) is on the outs with his news reporter girlfriend(she’s asian). She gets him work as a cameraman, but he gets fired for trying to shoot a reporter from different angles.
He also has a screenplay he’s been wanting to make into a movie, and after winning a contest at a movie theater, he wins a ticket to L.A. His script is sought after by an older female producer, who sleeps with him, and tries to pass off the script as her own. She tries to land his football player fried(black guy)in the movie, but he turns it down when he finds out that she stole it.The lead character has an overactive imagination, which involves him imagining moments in his real life as scenes from classic movies(an argument is seen as a light saber battle). In his daydreams, a man(the guide of his dreams, maybe?) always appears, trying to help him. I saw this on Showtime or Cinemax, between 98 – 02
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Answer by Nat Fayer
Jane Wyman — a competent and reliable actress and a really classy dame whose amazingly scandal-free career has ranged from 1932’s The Kid From Spain, in which she is billed as Sarah Jane Fulks, to the successful Falcon Crest television series of the 1980s. What a stretch of the imagination that the actress whose sensitive portrayals in The Yearling (1946) and Johnny Belinda (1948) would become television’s hard-edged harridan par excellence, Angela Channing, but there are few things more gratifying to a fan than to see the object of their affections reveal previously unseen talents. But play the parts she does, and everything in between, with her signature tenacity and sincerity. She has had multiple award nominations, and won the Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe for her efforts. Is she really an Oscar-caliber actress? Perhaps not by today’s standards, but her solid performances over almost 60 years deserve acknowledgment for Lifetime Achievement. She has not appeared onscreen in over a decade, even declining to attend the 70th Academy Awards celebration — sad, since the next time we see her at the Academy Awards will probably be when they show her photo to commemorate her passing. Wyman’s Academy Award — won for a performance in which she didn’t utter a single word, is for Johnny Belinda. In this, she plays “The Dummy,” as she is insensitively called by her father (Bickford) and aunt (Moorehead), but she is simply a deaf/mute girl who has never received any of the attention she desperately needs to help her communicate. She is discovered by a doctor (Ayres), who teaches her to read lips and use sign language. She is raped by the town bully, bears his child, and is ostracized by the community, as is the doctor, who is suspected of fathering the child. When the bully comes to forcibly take his child, Belinda shoots him, and goes on trial for murder. (In real life, “devoutly” Roman Catholic Wyman broke up her marriage to Ronald Reagan so she could marry Ayres. That marriage also ended in a divorce.) Director Negulesco, among his many accomplishments, is one of the premier directors of “women’s movies,” including Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), Woman’s World (1954), The Best of Everything (1959), and Phone Call From a Stranger (1952). He handles Johnny Belinda without the slick sheen of soap, and Wyman fares extremely well for that. Unintentional humor is added when it becomes apparent that poor Belinda must have been pregnant for a very long time, since she gives birth to an extraordinarily large infant who is clearly several months old. Jan Sterling appears here as the rapist’s wife, replete with what would soon become her signature shrill histrionics in such classics as Caged (1950), Female on the Beach (1955), and Women’s Prison (1955)………..
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