| | Hollywood Ending DVD
| Category | Comedies DVDs, New York City Movies, Film About Film Videos, Directors | | Starring | Tea Leoni, Treat Williams, Woody Allen, George Hamilton, Mark Rydell, Debra Messing, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Peter Gerety, Barney Cheng, Isaac Mizrahi | | Director | Woody Allen | | Director of Photography | Wedigo von Schultzendorff | | Executive Producer | Letty Aronson | | Screenwriter | Woody Allen |
Debra Messing, George Hamilton, Mark Rydell, Tea Leoni, Treat Williams, Woody Allen - Director: Woody Allen Woody Allen plays Val Waxman, a film director, who was once big in the 1970's and 1980's, but has now has been reduced to directing TV commercials. Finally, he gets an offer to make a big film. But, disaster strikes, when Val goes temporarily blind, due to paranoia. So, he and a few friends, try to cover up his disability, without the studio executives or the producers knowing that he is directing the film blind. In HOLLYWOOD ENDING, Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a onetime hot director who now gets fired from deodorant commercials in the frozen north. He is desperate for a comeback, but when he is at last offered a deal--for a $60 million blockbuster--it's from his ex-wife producer, Ellie (Tea Leoni), and her lover, Hal (Treat Williams), the studio head who had stolen Ellie away from Val ten years earlier. At his agent's (Mark Rydell as Al Hack) urging, Val takes the job, but Val is struck with psychosomatic blindness on the eve of production. Yet he is still determined to direct the picture.
HOLLYWOOD ENDING is a return to form for Allen. He is excellent as the fading auteur struggling to find his vision. His dependence on Al and Ellie is both pathetic and hysterical. Leoni and Rydell are outstanding, as is the rest of the eclectic cast, which includes Isaac Mizrahi as a production designer, Debra Messing as Val's chippie girlfriend, George Hamilton as a vain Hollywood tagalong, and Tiffani Thiessen as a sexpot actress. The film is filled with wonderful New York City locations, including Central Park, the Plaza hotel, Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle, Balthazar, and more. HOLLYWOOD ENDING is a funny, poignant look at a filmmaker fighting public and professional scrutiny to craft his art, not unlike what Allen himself has gone through in his career, especially in the 1990s. Theatrical release: May 3, 2002 Hollywood Ending Reviews: "...The situation is funny and Allen of course populates it with zingy one-liners....It's smart and sly..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "...The lighting is exquisite..."
-- Troy Patterson, Entertainment Weekly "...Woody Allen's funniest recent comedy....Allen the actor is in fine self-deprecating form, and Leoni is the best she has been since 1996's FLIRTING WITH DISASTER..."
-- Michael Clark, USA Today "...The ending is pretty amusing -- and so is the beginning, for that matter....This one definitely has it's moments..."
-- Tarek McCarthy, Variety
This is the only Barney Cheng video. Hollywood Ending | List Price | $12.99 (You save $3.70) | | Studio | Paramount Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 2002 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  16874  | | CD Universe Part number | 4926000 | | Catalog number | 89974 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Sep 17, 2002 | | Rating | PG-13 (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | some drug references and sexual material | | Running Time | 114 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Digitally Mastered; Letter Boxed; Widescreen |
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