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LOGLINE
Can
you be both moral and successful? Can you be rich and stay true to your
ideals? Can you produce quality films and remain at the top? Armed with
some dusty old scripts and a dream, Mickey Goodbar goes to Hollywood to
find out...
SYNOPSIS
It's the 1980s... a world of Reagonomics, bright pastels, big hair and
shoulder pads. Mickey Goodbar is a hard working guy. But his restaurant
business has gone bust, and his wife and kids have left him in the doldrums.
Tired of New York, with its bad traffic and high cost of living, he sets
out for Hollywood with some dusty old scripts and a dream.
Mickey is interviewed
for a secretary job at a major film studio. A top movie producer, Allen
Burke, hires him, but Mickey soon gets the assistant job when Leila (the
previous assistant) is shot and killed in an armed robbery at a fast food
joint. Mickey moves quickly into the fast-lane lifestyle of movies, girls,
drugs and booze, but Hollywood isn't what he expected.
Although Mickey manages
to produce a few films, they are all box-office flops due to their moral
high ground, lack of budgets, nosy writers or drug frazzled actors. Mickey's
life falls apart; Burke is busted on narcotics charges and serves time;
Mickey's fiancé leaves him for an up and coming British director;
and Mickey's morality disintegrates into a haze of drugs and booze.
Mickey becomes increasingly
paranoid. Thinking the whole world has got it in for him, he builds up
an armoury of guns and hides away in his editing studio at home to complete
his final masterpiece, a three-hour epic account of a Middle Eastern Revolution.
Neither the studios nor the producers support his viewpoints and insist
on the final cut... The studio changes the story from a factual account
of nation's cultures and traditions to a Hollywood farce of epic proportions.
However it is hugely successful and goes on to win Golden Globe and Academy
Awards. This infuriates the Islamic backers of the picture. They feel
Mickey has let them down, and send a gang of thugs to do away with him.
Mickey may be rich and
famous, but he is definitely not happy. He contemplates doing himself
in after a night of cocaine and whiskey. He stands on the edge of a building
about to throw himself off… but at the last minute he misinterprets
a large neon Coca-Cola billboard for the light of god. He is spiritually
awakened and returns to Hollywood on a new high.
GENRE
Black comedy
DURATION
Two hours
MAJOR THEMES
Do Corporations Rule The Market Like A Monopoly?
Must You Sell Your Soul Or Body To Be Successful?
If You're A Good Person Can You Make It In Hollywood?
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