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I'm Going to Be Famous

  • 1983
  • 1h 36m
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
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I'm Going to Be Famous (1983)
Drama

A group of young actors audition for a play by a famous author starring and a famous star. These hopefuls have every weapon available to achieve their goal including blackmail, sex and murde... Read allA group of young actors audition for a play by a famous author starring and a famous star. These hopefuls have every weapon available to achieve their goal including blackmail, sex and murder.A group of young actors audition for a play by a famous author starring and a famous star. These hopefuls have every weapon available to achieve their goal including blackmail, sex and murder.

  • Director
    • Paul Leder
  • Writer
    • Paul Leder
  • Stars
    • Dick Sargent
    • Roslyn Kind
    • Vivian Blaine
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.8/10
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    • Director
      • Paul Leder
    • Writer
      • Paul Leder
    • Stars
      • Dick Sargent
      • Roslyn Kind
      • Vivian Blaine
    • 1User review
    • 1Critic review
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    Dick Sargent
    Dick Sargent
    • The Director
    Roslyn Kind
    Roslyn Kind
    • Kitty March
    Vivian Blaine
    Vivian Blaine
    • Laura Lowell
    Paul Coufos
    Paul Coufos
    • Ron Michaels
    Meredith MacRae
    Meredith MacRae
    • Susan Barker
    • (as Meredith Mac Rae)
    Joe Michael Terry
    • Kevin McGraw
    • (as Joe Terry)
    Greg Mullavey
    Greg Mullavey
    • Harold Green
    D.W. Brown
    D.W. Brown
    Matt Collins
    George Gaynes
    George Gaynes
    Ellen Gerstein
    Ellen Gerstein
    Morgan Jones
    Morgan Jones
    Stanley Kamel
    Stanley Kamel
    George Murdock
    George Murdock
    Joanne Nail
    Joanne Nail
    Jennifer Rhodes
    Jennifer Rhodes
    Robert Q. Lewis
    Robert Q. Lewis
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    • Director
      • Paul Leder
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      • Paul Leder
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    • Trivia
      A character is shown passing a theatre showing Stripes (1981).
    • Connections
      References Stripes (1981)

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    2/10
    Not for this, you're not...
    Probably best known for his wonderfully-retitled exploitation opus I DISMEMBER MAMA, Paul Leder is a directorial figure whose dubious talent leaves him not exactly awaiting rediscovery. Still, Code Red gave him a go with a tape-sourced double-header featuring the equally well-titled RED LIGHT IN THE WHITE HOUSE and the much more bluntly monikered I'M GOING TO BE FAMOUS. While it's tough to top RED's obscurity, FAMOUS probably does it, having never appeared on US home video nor, I believe, in cinemas. Its sole bow ('til now) was on UK VHS and one television broadcast. As it turns out, we weren't really deprived of much.

    Kind of a poor man's NASHVILLE, FAMOUS, god help us, is seemingly trying to be a legitimate expose on the day-to-day lives and loves of a small group of Hollywood hopefuls looking to land the male lead in a new Broadway play (why exactly it's casting in LA before moving to New York is never specified - is this common practice?). The director (Dick Sargent) is of course schmoozing all the young leads, while the female star, herself the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress driven to drink by the expectations that carries, is simply trying to stay afloat while maintaining her singing career. For the young hopefuls, we get a bail bondsman who moonlights (or daylights, really) as an actor, an earnest young guy from the sticks with a religious fixation and self-abusive tendences, a model whose mistress shows up carrying his child, etc. Basically, it all reads like the aftermath of a brainstorming session titled "Interesting Movie" by someone who couldn't quite tell the difference between legitimate drama and mere theatrics. While the film pants and heaves dashing between these tabloid-fodder subplots, it does so in vain, since the characters are too thinly drawn and poorly developed to merit any interest.

    Basically, what we have is the ensemble movie from hell, which drags on interminably and rarely generates even a modicum of interest among its large cast. I had expected some kind of navel-gazing, poison pen letter to Hollywood a la the execrable 90s "comedy" INSTANT KARMA, but somehow this is worse, a dumbfoundingly earnest attempt at community portraiture delivered by someone steadfastly ill-equipped for the task. I'd say it would've been best leaving it to the dustbin of history, but given the recent DVD reissue has seemingly already fallen off the face of the Earth, I suppose fate has seen to setting things right...
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    • Release date
      • January 1986 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • I'm going to be famous
    • Production company
      • L.T. Productions
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      1 hour 36 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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