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HOLLYWOOD ENDING

By Woody ALLEN

GÖTEBORG FILM FESTIVAL - as DISTR VOD, SWEDEN

Comedy - Completed 2002

Once-successful film director Val Waxman is in desperate need of a comeback. Disaster strikes when he suffers temporary blindness after an offer to make a big film.

- Year of production
- 2002
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 112 mn
- Director(s)
- Woody ALLEN
- Writer(s)
- Woody ALLEN
- Cast
- Téa LEONI, Debra MESSING, Treat WILLIAMS
- ISAN
- 0000-0001-380F-0000-5-0000-0000-M
- EIDR
- 10.5240/D1F8-B824-332E-5772-D7A4-S
- Producer(s)
- Letty ARONSON, Helen ROBIN
- Synopsis
- Allen plays Val Waxman, a one-time cinematic genius who's resorted to taking advertisement work to pay the bills for himself and his airhead live-in girlfriend, Lori (Debra Messing). Val finds his luck is about to change, however, when he receives a script for a fantastic film. It seems his ex-wife, Ellie (Tea Leoni), now an executive at Galaxy Pictures, has been pulling for him to direct the picture, claiming he's the only man who can do justice to the script.
  Just when the cameras are ready to roll, however, Val finds that unique vision in jeopardy -- literally -- as he's struck with a psychosomatic case of blindness. When physicians and psychiatrists fail to cure him, Val contrives a scheme to forge ahead with the picture, for fear of blowing his one last chance at greatness.