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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Swimming With Sharks (1994)

Buddy Ackerman (Kevin Spacey) has got to be the worst boss in the world. He's a big time Hollywood producer who regularly abuses his naive assistant, Guy (Frank Whaley). Frank wants to make it big in Tinsel Town, so he puts up with being given impossible tasks, called at all hours of the day and night by Buddy, and being screamed and yelled at constantly. Frank decides he has had enough one day and decides to exact his revenge on Buddy. However, both men find themselves confronted by antoher surprise that will change everything.

Spacey does a great job playing a nightmare of a boss. It was hard to watch the scenes where he humiliated Whaley's character. When Guy finally gets fed up, I was cheering him on. The story is dark and just gets uglier as it goes on.

Spacey has appeared in several good films including Seven, The Usual Suspects and LA Confidential. Benicio Del Toro (Traffic) appears as a co-worker of Guy's. Roy Dotrice, who appeared as Father on TV's "Beauty and the Beast", is also in this movie.

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