Mistress

Successful character actor Barry Primus spent seven years trying to get financing for his feature debut as a writer-director, Mistress. In the film, a once-promising writer-director, Marvin Landisman (Robert Wuhl), who now directs instructional videos, is sitting home one night, watching his own ...more

An inside look at low-level Hollywood deal making, Mistress was released just a few months after Robert Altman's The Player, and suffered from the comparison. While The Player is slick and jaunty, and features a wealth of A-list cameos, Mistress is more sweaty and desperate, and features cameos by Christopher Walken and Ernest Borgnine. Primus clearly based Mistress partly on his own experiences in the film business, and a lot of the amusing low-budget details (exemplified by Jack Roth's ...more