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A very strange but surprisingly good movie

This piece of film work is one of the most confusing things you will ever watch. It is a movie within a movie - within a movie - within a movie (probably within a movie). Since you are basically watching a movie anyway, it shouldn't matter to you if it is in the end just a movie but it does because somewhere in between you just lost the line and took it for real life - within a movie.

So here is the story. There is this actor, Nicholas (Blair Underwood), who shoots a movie with Brad Pitt. While he does that he is interviewed by a journalist (Julia Roberts) he falls in love with. But actually that is just a movie, too winding up to the personal life of the rest of the crew and actors around in Hollywood. There are so many movie shootings going on in that movie. It all ends with the death of the producer Gus (David Duchovny), while everyone is waiting for him on his birthday party. (Was it as birthday party at all?) Meanwhile we get a look at the lifes of the rest of the actors and crew. There is casting director Lee who wants to leave her husband but then his day goes so wrong that he doesn't even get the letter she wrote him to do so. Linda (Mary McCormack) meanwhile meets some guy online who says he's a 20 year old actor while in fact he's a mid 40s stageplay director, just releasing his new play on Hitler.

And in the end you get to know that also this personal life of the actors you watched was just a movie.

This is very confusing, and somehow brilliant! It takes a while to really get it but it's worth it. That is one of the most underrated movies of all times, just because it's hard to get. And it comes with a great cast, too. A better cast than you expect because the movie has on the first look the feeling of a B-movie, mostly because of the shooting quality. This is definitly to be recommended and even though it got really bad reviews I really like it!

Full Frontal - Released August 2002