I'll Do Anything
Tagline(s): She's the most maddening female he's ever met. And she's only 6 years old.
Released: February 4, 1994
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Directed by James L. Brooks
Stars: Nick Nolte, Albert Brooks, Julie Kavner, Whittni Wright, Joely Richardson, Tracey Ullman
Rotten Tomatoes: 61%
Metacritic: Not rated.
Budget: $40 million
Box Office: $10 million
This is the first of three Nick Nolte movies of 1994 and it goes to remind you how much a charismatic screen presence he was before he moved into his latter, grumbling, mumbling, Tom Waits period. He definitely operates at a shouty register, as we'll see even more in evidence in Blue Chips.
I think the idea here was the contrast of big bear Nolte with little kid as the poster heavily implies but really that's a sidenote to the film and really one of a number of subplots. Instead the focus of this film is the process of getting films made and the cynical people involved developing and casting movies. The box office return here goes to show that this kind of Hollywood insider story has limited audience appeal, even if the critics took to it more.
There's a huge Simpsons connection here with James L Brooks as director who also a writer and producer on the Simpsons. There's also Julie Kavner who voices Marge and then Tracey Ullman upon whose show the Simpsons' shorts were first broadcast.
All in all the many strands of this film don't quite connect and the central story isn't quite interesting enough to justify its existence with only Nick Nolte rescuing it from being a complete dud.
Released: February 4, 1994
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Directed by James L. Brooks
Stars: Nick Nolte, Albert Brooks, Julie Kavner, Whittni Wright, Joely Richardson, Tracey Ullman
Rotten Tomatoes: 61%
Metacritic: Not rated.
Budget: $40 million
Box Office: $10 million
Synopsis
Nick Nolte is Matt Hobbs, an acting struggling to get that next role. When his ex-wife is headed for jail he is forced to take on his precocious and somewhat obnoxious daughter Jeannie. Relationships also form with Hollywood insiders as Hobbs begins to understand how movies really are made.
Recollections
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Review
This is the first of three Nick Nolte movies of 1994 and it goes to remind you how much a charismatic screen presence he was before he moved into his latter, grumbling, mumbling, Tom Waits period. He definitely operates at a shouty register, as we'll see even more in evidence in Blue Chips.
I think the idea here was the contrast of big bear Nolte with little kid as the poster heavily implies but really that's a sidenote to the film and really one of a number of subplots. Instead the focus of this film is the process of getting films made and the cynical people involved developing and casting movies. The box office return here goes to show that this kind of Hollywood insider story has limited audience appeal, even if the critics took to it more.
There's a huge Simpsons connection here with James L Brooks as director who also a writer and producer on the Simpsons. There's also Julie Kavner who voices Marge and then Tracey Ullman upon whose show the Simpsons' shorts were first broadcast.
All in all the many strands of this film don't quite connect and the central story isn't quite interesting enough to justify its existence with only Nick Nolte rescuing it from being a complete dud.
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