

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Direction
Altman's roaming camera catches 60+ cameos like a fever dream.
Writing
Michael Tolkin's script predicted every toxic exec trope.
Production
Opening 8-minute single take is pure flex cinema.

Director
Robert Altman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The opening shot includes 50+ unbilled cameos; Altman had celebrities call their own famous friends to show up. Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis agreed to fake-film scenes that became the movie Griffin produces.
The film predicted the industry shift toward high-concept 'movie movies' while studios killed the mid-budget drama—ironically becoming the exact thing it satirized when it won zero Oscars.