Mistress (1992)
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 16
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 5
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Average Rating: 7.8/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 3
No consensus yet.
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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
Jun 1, 1991 Wide
Mar 23, 1999
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Cast
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Robert Wuhl
Marvin Landisman -
Martin Landau
Jack Roth -
Robert De Niro
Evan M. Wright -
Danny Aiello
Carmine Rasso -
Eli Wallach
George Lieberhoff -
Jace Alexander
Stuart Stratland Jr. -
Tuesday Knight
Peggy -
Sheryl Lee Ralph
Beverly -
Christopher Walken
Warren Zell -
Laurie Metcalf
Rachel Landisman -
Jean Smart
Patricia Riley -
Frida S. Aradottir
Mrs. Evan M. Wright -
Tim Bagley
Mitch's Singing Student -
Gretchen Becker
Hamburger Girl -
Ernest Borgnine
Himself -
Jerome Dempsey
Mitch -
Dimitri Dimitrov
Maitre d' -
Stefan Gierasch
Stratland Sr. -
Deirdre Hade
Party Goer -
Dawn Hopper
Mitch's Singing Student -
Debbie James
Mitch's Singing Student -
Kate Lang Johnson
Party Guest -
Peter Kalos
Party Goer -
Michael F. Kelley
Guard at Gate -
Mary Mercier
Shelby's Waitress -
Raphaela Rose Primus
Raphaela Wright -
Bill Rotko
Valet -
Vasek Simek
Hans -
Nina Small
Mitch's Singing Student -
Tomas R. Voth
Stagehand -
Roberta Wallach
Nancy -
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Eileen Wilkinson
Astrologer -
Byron Simpson
Mitch's Singing Student -
Chuck Low
Benrie -
Leata Galloway
Mitch's Singing Student
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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.
Top CriticThe gags are too obvious; the conflict between art and money is hackneyed; and the plot goes badly off the rails in the later reels.
"Mistress" abounds with sharp comic performances that never stray into caricature or sentimentality.
Seeing Mistress is like getting a bad table at the in Hollywood restaurant. You're eavesdropping on all the dull conversations.
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.
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.
A pitch black dark comedy.
Deft Hollywood satire with a top-drawer cast.
One of De Niro's less essential outings.
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.
The energetic cast and the wealth of comic possibilities that are achieved make for an enjoyable romp.
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