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Movie Info

Struggling filmmaker Marvin Landisman (Robert Wuhl) gets a surprise phone call from Jack Roth (Martin Landau), an ex-Hollywood executive who wants to turn one of Marvin's screenplays into a movie. Marvin thinks his life's ambition is about to become a reality, until he meets the film's financial backers (Robert De Niro, Danny Aiello, Eli Wallach). Each investor has a young girlfriend whom they force Marvin to offer a role to, and then they also re-write the script until it's unrecognizable.

Rating:

R
Genre:

drama, comedy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Barry Primus
Producer:

Robert De Niro, Bertil Ohlsson, Meir Teper
Writer:

Barry Primus, J.F. Lawton
Release Date (Streaming):

Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA):

$53.6K
Runtime:

1h 52m
Production Co:

Tribeca Productions

Cast & Crew

Robert Wuhl
Marvin Landisman

Martin Landau
Jack Roth

Robert De Niro
Evan M. Wright

Danny Aiello
Carmine Rasso

Eli Wallach
George Lieberhof

Jace Alexander
Stuart Stratland Jr.

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Critic Reviews for Mistress

All Critics (18) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (13) | 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

David Stratton
Variety
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…

Derek Adams
Time Out
"Mistress" abounds with sharp comic performances that never stray into caricature or sentimentality.

May 20, 2003 | Rating: 4/5

Stephen Holden
New York Times
Seeing Mistress is like getting a bad table at the in Hollywood restaurant. You're eavesdropping on all the dull conversations.

May 12, 2001

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
Primus brings a scruffy intimacy to "Mistress," which distinguishes it still further from "The Player" with its palmy California setting.

January 1, 2000 | Full Review…

Rita Kempley
Washington Post
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…

Desson Thomson
Washington Post
Mistress consists of a series of meetings, some absurd, some touching. Primus works in a simple, unaffected style that gives the film a feeling of the unglamorous, drab, even dreary and depressing side of Tinseltown.

May 23, 2018 | Full Review…

Malcolm Johnson
Hartford Courant
Director Barry Primus's script lacks punch, but what it has, it doesn't pull.

December 8, 2017 | Full Review…

Quentin Curtis
Independent on Sunday
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May 7, 2007 | Rating: 3/5

Chuck O'Leary
FulvueDrive-in.com
A pitch black dark comedy.

November 14, 2005 | Rating: 3/5

Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
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August 3, 2005 | Rating: 3/5

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
Deft Hollywood satire with a top-drawer cast.

July 24, 2003 | Rating: 3/5

Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)