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De Niro and Sandra Bernhard kidnap Jerry Lewis (playing, brilliantly, a famous late-night talk show host), Bernhard steals the movie, and the ending is guaranteed to provoke long, excruciating arguments about the difference between fantasy and reality.
The film's conceit (always a good word to use around Eszterhas) is that a director steals his own terrible movie to prevent its release.
(In Michael Collins , Collins steals his best friend's girlfriend when the friend goes to America to raise money.)
It's a portrait of the artist as a perfect swine" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). British newcomer Samantha Morton steals the show as a mute laundress who becomes Ray's lover: "Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). One critic dissents: Mike Clark of USA Today calls the film "depressing" and only "sporadically amusing."
A big hit at this year's Sundance Film Festival, this first feature produced by five film-school graduates from Florida steals some of Kubrick's opening-weekend thunder.