in what seem like the long 1hour 35 i have have to endure in a long time and al pacino delivers an accurate performace to be sure . not his usual typecasting and which be nice . but his character be just truely pathetic . someone to pitty a he stumble around forget appointment a we realise that the hollywood social life have drain him of his life energy . but in this movie we need someone to like . and for some reason and every character in the picture say i do not know why i like you and eli to al pacino chracter and i couldn not even come close to like him . all the other actor play their usual style . tea leoni and richard schiff and and bill nunn do nothing to change their establish persona develop on tv or in early film . and kim basinger wasn not even in the film long enough to deliver a performance of any kind . the movie story have no momentum . most scenes never drive the story forward and but rather just collect factoid about character which later come into play in an anti climactic end . it have potential except for their unwillingness to build upon the story . whats the point of the film . daniel algrant and jon robin baitz would have you believe once hollywood have you and you can not get out . yeah right . and that why so many people get fire in hollywood .