After yesterday's Yes Man success, this seemed like another good visit to the old vault - sadly this is a toad of a film which should have stayed where it was, croaking and out of sight. Journalist Simon Pegg meets this TV star he's nuts about at a party. Does he ask her any questions? No. He asks for her autograph. That's how bad this is. He doesn't do anything. OK - he does at the end. He finally manages to do something and sells out. Why does Jeff Bridges employ him at all? It's nuts. Like the bit where the boss's wife falls over and he just steps over her...
Oh yeah - you know you're in trouble when bits of The Apartment get grafted on to the plot.
Kirsten Dunst, Danny Huston, Gillian Anderson and someone called Megan Fox have the misfortune to appear.
Pegg's screen actress mother is in fact real actress Janette Scott, who was in Day of the Triffids. The clip shown is Now and Forever (1956). Did also like Oliver Stapleton's glossy photography.
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