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The Real Blonde (1997)

Director: Tom DiCillo

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From Time Out Film Guide

This attempt at combining satirical comedy with deeply felt emotional drama is only fitfully successful. One minute, he's mocking the inanities of the New York film, fashion and music industries. The next, he's scratching over the relationship between his antagonists, struggling actor Modine and make-up artist Keener, with Bergman-like intensity. There are some wonderful moments along the way - Keener beating up her martial arts tutor (Leary) or Modine as a pimpled, white-skinned extra in a Madonna video. Caulfield is sardonic and funny as the louche young seducer/soap opera star who shrivels up when he has the chance to make love with a real blonde (Hannah). Modine is enjoyably sanctimonious as the Arthur Miller-spouting young thesp, but, bizarrely, director DiCillo, while mocking everybody else, seems to take him at face value.

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Cast & crew

Director: Tom DiCillo

Producer: Marcus Viscidi, Tom Rosenberg

Cast: Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, Daryl Hannah, Kathleen Turner, Maxwell Caulfield, Elizabeth Berkley, Buck Henry, Christopher Lloyd, Denis Leary, Steve Buscemi full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 105 mins


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