A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.
Acting
Mary-Louise Parker weaponizes frazzled determination
Writing
Script-within-script layers that actually land
Direction
Walsh commits to the bit with zero shame
Director
John C. Walsh
Mary-Louise Parker
Toni Edelman
Martin Donovan
David Kulovic
Rebecca Gayheart
Marliss Funt
Susan Misner
Onica
Jill Hennessy
Marina Peck
Jonathan M. Woodward
Boyd
Kevin Carroll
RJ
Guinevere Turner
Agent
Peter Jacobson
Arnie
Adina Porter
Lauren Gunther
Michaela Conlin
TV Reporter
Jack Merrill
Rich Glover
Tim Hopper
Mitch Farkas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 1999 but shelved until 2002, making it a time capsule of pre-9/11 indie optimism and post-Sundance hustle culture.
Walsh based the premise on a real plumber who claimed to be a filmmaker to pick up women at parties — the art imitates the scam imitating art.
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