Fault Line (2009)
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 20M
Director : Lucas Elliot Eberl
Sinopse
The story of a group of actors and artists living in Los Angeles who are struggling to find their humanity within the whirlwind of show business, parties, drugs, depression, money, lack of money, love, greed, ambition, addiction, art and technology.
In an attempt to sign a Hollywood starlet, struggling talent agent and former child star Howard Holloway must contend with her volatile father, a scheming long-time rival, and a producer and casting director who despise him.
Em novembro de 1924 um misterioso assassinato acontece no iate Oneida, do magnata das comunicações William Randolph Hearst (Edward Herrmann). Entre os convidados da excursão estão Charles Chaplin (Eddie Izzard); a starlet Marion Davies (Kirsten Dunst), amante de Hearst; o produtor de cinema todo-poderoso Thomas Ince (Cary Elwes); a temida colunista social Louella Parsons (Jennifer Tilly); e a romancista inglesa Elinor Glyn (Joanna Lumley). Noitadas de muito uísque e jazz alimentam intrigas, paixões e ciúmes. Hearst desconfia que sua amante o trai com Chaplin, que passa a ser alvo da vigilância de Ince. Até que um tiro é ouvido no iate.
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
Em Manhattan, Joe e Mary, um casal de namorados, vive junto há seis anos. Ele ambiciona ser ator, mas não tem agente, nem currículo e trabalha como garçom. Mary é quem paga a maior parte das contas, trabalhando como maquiadora de uma badalada fotógrafa de modas, Blair. Joe acaba aceitando ter uma participação muito pequena em um vídeo da Madonna, enquanto um amigo, que tem obsessão por loiras naturais e também trabalha com ele como garçom, consegue emprego em uma novela para ganhar 3.600 dólares por semana. Lá, ele se envolve com Kelly, a atriz principal, deixando de lado uma requisitada modelo que é apaixonada por ele. Mas acontecimentos variados vão afetar a vida de todos eles.
An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage. The actor believes his wife is capable of infidelity and sets out to prove this is so. Disguising himself as the kind of man he believes she fancies (a Russian military officer), the actor woos his wife while she believes her husband to be out of town.
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Trois jour à vivre (Three Days to Live) takes off with a bang when two-bit actor Daniel Gelin witnesses a murder. He didn't see the killer, but that doesn't stop him from claiming that he did in order to get his name into the papers. Sure enough, the murderer targets Gelin as his next victim. Our hero is temporarily rescued by Jeanne Moreau, an aspiring actress who has always had a crush on him.
Two friends an actor and a chef discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it. But also have to deal with the two men who fixed it who are trying to silence them. And there's also the mob boss whom the two guys work for who planned the fixing thing whose wife is having an affair with the actor.
A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment.
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