Réalisation:
Richard BenjaminPhotographie:
Danny NowakMusique:
Joseph VitarelliActeurs·trices:
Nathan Lane, Mark Linn-Baker, Saul Rubinek, Dan Castellaneta, Richard Portnow, Kristi Angus, Colin Fox, Sherry Miller, Zach Grenier, Victor Garber, Mackenzie Astin, Kelsey Matheson (plus)Résumés(1)
Playwright Neil Simon got his first big break in the early '50s as a staff writer on Sid Caesar's fabled television series Your Show of Shows, and this comedy (adapted by Simon from his play) takes a fictionalized look at the backstage chaos that went into producing one of the landmarks of television's golden age. Max Prince (Nathan Lane) is the star of The Max Prince Show, a popular comedy-variety series with ratings that have begun to slip; Prince's show is still a major hit on the East Coast, but network executive Cal Weebs (Colin Fox) insists that it's too sophisticated for the Midwest, and urges Prince to dumb down his act. Prince has also become the whipping boy of newspaper columnist Walter Winchell (Frank Proctor), and between the tensions of producing a hour of top-quality comedy each week and being pestered about his ratings, Prince is beginning to unravel. His relationship with his wife Faye (Sherry Miller) and their children is falling apart, and stress is eating him alive. Prince's brother Harry (Richard Portnow) is Max's assistant, and his last line of defense against both the network and his writing staff, which spend its days coming up with business for the show while hurling humorous invective at each other and anyone else within earshot. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Ian D. Clark
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
Lilies - Les feluettes (1996)
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
Meurtre par téléphone (1982)
Roy Lewis
Meilleurs films :
Gotti (1996) (téléfilm)
Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble (2000) (téléfilm)
Le Courage d'un con (1995)
Michael Hanrahan
Meilleurs films :
Knights of the South Bronx (2005) (téléfilm)
Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story (1999)
Dr. Cabbie (2014)