HIJACKING HOLLYWOOD

Name: HIJACKING HOLLYWOOD
Item: HIJACKING HOLLYWOOD
Author: Review

"Hijacked by Foul Language"

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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What You Need To Know:

In HIJACKING HOLLYWOOD, Kevin, a young screenwriter, comes to Los Angeles to break into the film business. He holds a letter of introduction to a producer. He finds an apartment with an ambitious, conniving roommate and gets hired as a lowly production assistant on a big-budget re-make of MOBY DICK. His supervisor fiendishly implements the whims of the tyrannical producer, whose imperious demands send Kevin wildly running all over the map on nonsensical errands. When Kevin tells his roommate that the producer has ordered him to go to the airport to pick up a film canister containing the film dailies of a giant whale attacking Honolulu, Hawaii, one of the most expensive scenes in Hollywood history, his roommate hatches a scheme to intercept the shipment and hold it for ransom.

Although the comic interplay of Thomas and Metcalf is good, the storyline fresh and clever, and the production values high, the excessive foul language hijacks the movie’s potential for entertainment. It is a shame that all this talent is trapped in a film bound for obscurity because of too much gutter language. Rife with obscenities, HIJACKING HOLLYWOOD tries to intersperse good comedy with needless nudity and so much gutter language as to obscure its otherwise clever story.

Content:

(Pa, LLL,V, SS, NN, A, D, M) Pagan, materialistic worldview of a young man trying to break into Hollywood; 75 obscenities & 8 profanities; man threatens man with gun; implied adultery; upper female nudity; alcohol; smoking; and, lying, stealing & cheating

More Detail:

In HIJACKING HOLLYWOOD, director/producer/writer Neil Mandt presents viewers with his version of the naïve young man who plans to conquer Hollywood. The hero and his roommate conspire to steal a valuable film shipment from a studio and hold it hostage to their demands for ransom. The problem is that HIJACKING HOLLYWOOD espouses the necessity of lying, cheating, stealing, and immorality as the way to work the system and includes excessive and explosive vulgarity.

Kevin (Henry Thomas), a young screenwriter, comes to Los Angeles to break into the film business. He has written a screenplay, “Three Days in a Salt Mine”, which he wants to get produced and holds a letter of introduction to a producer. He finds an apartment with an ambitious, conniving roommate (Neil Mandt) and gets hired as a lowly production assistant on a big-budget re-make of MOBY DICK. Thus, his career careens forward at break-neck pace.

His supervisor (Scott Thompson) fiendishly implements the whims of the tyrannical producer (Mark Metcalf), whose imperious demands send Kevin wildly running all over the LA map in comically nonsensical errands, which include delivering a pencil to Burbank. When Kevin and his roommate learn that the company has just filmed scenes of a giant whale attacking Honolulu, Hawaii, one of the most expensively-shot scenes in Hollywood history at $16 million, his roommate hatches a scheme to intercept the shipment and hold it for ransom.