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What Just Happened
| Rating: | R (for language, some violent images, sexual content and some drug material) |
| Genre: | Comedy, Drama |
| Release Date: | October 17, 2008 |
| Running time: | 107 minutes |
| Cast: | Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, John Turturro, Robin Wright Penn |
| Director: | Barry Levinson |
| Producer: | Robert De Niro, Art Linson, Jane Rosenthal |
| Writer: | Art Linson |
| Distributor: | Magnolia Pictures |
Description: "What Just Happened" is about two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks in the world of a middle-aged Hollywood producer--as he tries to juggle an actual life with an outrageous series of crises in his day job. This is the tale of a man besieged by people who want him all to be sorts of things--a money maker, an ego buster, a bad news breaker, an artistic champion, a loyal husband, an all-knowing father, not to mention sexy, youthful and tuned-in--everything except for the one thing he and all the preposterously behaved people he's surrounded by really are: bumbling human beings just trying to survive by any means necessary. Ben is already in over his head trying to balance the tug-of-war of having two ex-wives and two different families with his latest business venture--the boldly "visionary" movie "Fiercely," starring Sean Penn--when everything that can go wrong goes completely screwy. Somehow amidst all the madness, treachery, deceit, runaway egos, rampant commercialism, personal politics and atrocious behavior of America's dream-making machinery, Ben has to find a way not just to make it to Cannes with a finished film, but to cope...
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