A story about a screen writer that gets forced out of the
business due to the notion he has lost his edge. He meets an unusual woman who is told by his
friend can turn your career around. Steven being at his wits end agrees to see her
as he feels he has more to give in his scripts.
His world gets flip flopped all over as this woman eventually turns out
to be more than he bargained for. It’s
full of humor especially from Albert Brooks in every scene he’s in it seems. The story gets twisty but remains intact to
the end.
It’s
really interesting for me at this point in my life to be watching a movie about
a screen writer who is struggling to come up with a script that will be
taken. I relate to it, in that, I’ve
been writing for a few months now and at times I wonder what exactly to write
down for what movie I’m reviewing.
Frustration sets in at times but I remember to just express what I feel
first and work from there.
Steven
Phillips (Albert Brooks) is down on his luck and turns to a close friend of his
Jack Warrick (Jeff Bridges) to get some advice.
He gets introduced to Sarah (Sharon Stone) who seems to be a mysterious
person or muse that can get his act together and back on track. I began to get the feeling this plot was similar
to a couple other movies I’ve seen before like, Sweet November and Anger
Management. A man who is troubled in one
fashion or another mentally and here comes an eccentric person to do things in
an extremely odd manner to fix everything up.
It appears Sarah would be that fixer as Steven is the broken man. It’s a different approach as the story moves
along though as Steven isn’t quite disturbed or bothered other than a writer’s
block of some kind.
Sarah
does help Steven’s wife Laura (Andie MacDowell) open up and become a baker for
a successfully nearby restaurant. The
portrayal of a muse being real gets conveyed to be very possible as her
connections with various people seem to bring great fortune to those around
her. Eventually Sarah drops a hint to
Steven on how to finish this script he’s stuck on. He brings it into the studio and gets
dismissed just as he did at the beginning of the film. Things spiral out of control for Steven just
when he thought it was turning around for him.
He soon discovers from a pair of doctors that pay him a visit to his
home that Sarah is a mental patient. His
wife and he get convinced of it as the doctors are tracking down Sarah. The story gets a bit confusing and doesn’t hold
together as it did throughout at this point.
Steven
gets a call that his script will now be accepted and when he goes back to the
studio Sarah is under a new alias as the person approving his script. She has a wig and appears to be not a muse per
say but indeed a mental patient on the verge of another identity crisis. The movie swiftly ends without verifying whether
she’s actually a muse or really just mentally unstable.
I for
one don’t know for sure but it’s a movie in which it doesn’t really bother me
that I don’t. The main interest points
for me in the movie were whenever Albert Brooks was in any conversation. He was always calm and delivered these
hilarious lines on a whim every time.
Everything else in the movie was basically second fiddle to his
performance which in turn didn’t make me want to know the truth of whatever
Sarah was supposed to be. Sharon Stone
does give a decent performance but it’s really nothing special. It’s a smart comedy so try to keep up.
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