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An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn Movie Review

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn Review

"An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn" Overview

* star

Rating: R
1997

Cast and Crew

Director : Alan Smithee
Producer : Ben Myron
Screenwiter : Joe Eszterhas
Starring Ryan Oneal, Coolio, Chuck D., Eric Idle, Richard Jeni, Leslie Stefanson, Sandra Bernhard, Cherie Lunghi, Harvey Weinstein

How bad is An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn? Every bit as awful as you might have heard. This wannabe mockumentary tries to send up Hollywood in a tale that has director Alan Smithee (Eric Idle) hijacking his own film and destroying it because it's so bad, because he can't use the pseudonym Alan Smithee because (duh!) that's his real name! Har har! Joe Eszterhas is responsible (of course) for this mess, which is so unfunny the only laughs are during the outtakes that run during the credits. And that's the actors laughing, not the audience. Widely panned as one of the worst movies ever made, life imitated art when director Arthur Hiller took his name off this train wreck and used... of course... Alan Smithee.


Reviewer: Christopher Null


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