the deal

Director: steven schachter

Actor: william h. macy,meg ryan,ll cool j,elliott gould

Data Published: Thu Nov 20 2008

Genres: Comedy,Romance

Key Words: reference to philip seymour hoffman,reference to mel brooks,reference to ernest hemingway,reference to matt damon,reference to robin williams

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848281/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deal_(2008_film)

Description: The Deal is a movie starring William H. Macy, Meg Ryan, and LL Cool J. A Hollywood producer starts with his nephew's script on Disraeli, Jewish PM in 1800s UK, and ends filming in Cape Town with a black action star. Will a movie be...

Plot: Struggling Hollywood film producer Charlie Berns is on the verge of suicide when his aspiring screenwriter nephew Lionel arrives from New Jersey with a script about 19th century British statesman Benjamin Disraeli. Charlie agrees to make the film, but only when he converts the literate PBS-style script (that he didn't read) into an action adventure Middle Eastern espionage film, Ben Disraeli: Freedom Fighter. He casts power-star African American Bobby Mason, a recent convert to Judaism, in the title role and, after some creative wrangling with studio big-wigs and feisty project developer Deidre Hearn, whom he is instantly attracted to, he proceeds to set up production in South Africa. Charlie then lies to the studio, saying Bobby insists Deidre, who has purposely avoided Charlie, be sent to South Africa to assist on the production. She arrives, and she and Charlie eventually 'hook-up'. After Bobby is kidnapped by terrorists during the shoot, and the film is shut down, Deidre hatches a scheme to produce Lionel's original script 'on the Q.T.'. Using financing that must stay in Prague, Charlie and Deidre manage to film Lionel's original movie there, which goes on to receive seven Golden Globe nominations, making Charlie and Deidre the newest power couple producers in Hollywood.