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Mistress (1992)

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57

Average Rating: 7.8/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 3

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35

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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 541

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Movie Info

Successful character actor Barry Primus spent seven years trying to get financing for his feature debut as a writer-director, Mistress. In the film, a once-promising writer-director, Marvin Landisman (Robert Wuhl), who now directs instructional videos, is sitting home one night, watching his own print of Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion, when he gets a strange phone call. A producer, Jack Roth (Martin Landau), formerly a bigwig at Universal, tells Marvin he was cleaning out his office when he came

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Comedy

Barry Primus, J.F. Lawton

Mar 23, 1999

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All Critics (16) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (5)

Can't seem to decide if it's supposed to be a comedy about Hollywood small-timers trying to get an indie pic off the ground, or a somber drama in which greed and lust overwhelm art.

May 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety
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The gags are too obvious; the conflict between art and money is hackneyed; and the plot goes badly off the rails in the later reels.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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"Mistress" abounds with sharp comic performances that never stray into caricature or sentimentality.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times
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Seeing Mistress is like getting a bad table at the in Hollywood restaurant. You're eavesdropping on all the dull conversations.

May 12, 2001
Rolling Stone
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The movie has been described as a low-rent version of Robert Altman's "The Player," but it would be more accurate to say it's about low-rent players.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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Although it's never worse than watchable, the story barely expands beyond its own boundaries. It starts off appealingly small -- the way the old Albert Brooks movies used to. But it stays small.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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A pitch black dark comedy.

November 14, 2005
ColeSmithey.com

Deft Hollywood satire with a top-drawer cast.

July 24, 2003
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

One of De Niro's less essential outings.

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

The performances are all strong (particularly Landau's) but, as a whole, the movie suffers from competing impulses that push and pull Mistress from comedy to drama and back again.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle

The energetic cast and the wealth of comic possibilities that are achieved make for an enjoyable romp.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Audience Reviews for Mistress

I appreciate this film more and more.
July 7, 2008
threefolddado

Super Reviewer

It tries to show an interesting reality in Hollywood business and that's why I bought it, but the truth is this movie goes nowhere and it ends anywhere. The cast was promising and first class, but they're all wasted, being Landau the only exception. The DVD box lies because it doesn't say Robert Wuhl is the protagonist, I would have bought the DVD if I had known he was, he was an awful actor, he always played his character in the same tone, pretending he has angry. One last thought: The whole movie is boring and clitched.
March 12, 2012
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