Swimming with Sharks

Swimming with Sharks

1994 · 93 min · EN · R · 6.6 (278 votes)
Dir. George Huang · Starring Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley, Michelle Forbes, Benicio del Toro, T.E. Russell, Roy Dotrice · Music Tom Hiel

In Hollywood his dreams could come true. But first he has to make coffee.

CrimeComedy

Guy is a young film executive who's willing to do whatever it takes to make it in Hollywood. He begins working for famed producer Buddy Ackerman, a domineering, manipulative, coldhearted boss. When Guy also finds out that his cynical girlfriend, Dawn, has been using sex as a career move, he reaches his limit. Guy decides to exact revenge on Buddy by kidnapping him and subjecting him to cruel and unusual punishment.

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A biting satire of Hollywood's cutthroat nature. It's a tense, uncomfortable ride through ambition gone wrong, where power plays and dark humor collide in a quest for vengeance.

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