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Critics call this depressing coke-fueled vision of '80s Hollywood lowlifes more an actors' showcase than a drama: It's "a tedious circus of apoplectic speeches and explosive thespian snit fits" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Sean Penn and Kevin Spacey both give keen performances as strung-out movie-biz sharks, but most of the film is just talk (it was adapted from David Rabe's play), with a few bits of sex and violence the only action.
A nanny with suspiciously strung-out friends.
The view is conspiratorial, not in the strung-out, scandalized manner of Oliver Stone's JFK but in a cool, ironic way.
The basic problem is that the editors did not seem able to make value judgments regarding the amount of space to be devoted to the entries: on the one hand we find acid house, chaos theory, and desktop publishing, none of them succinctly written, on the other, long, strung-out entries on Steffi Graff, Margaret Atwood, and Paul McCartney, and to what avail?
As Leigh skips back and forth between past and present, he spotlights the contrast between the well-coiffed woman and strung-out teen-ager; gradually, the two incarnations merge.