Overview
Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction book into a narrative movie, Mulholland enlists the services of Herb Dorman, a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane to help him create a movie.
Cast
- Walter Matthau as Joe Mulholland
- Charles Grodin as Herb Derman
- Vincent Gardenia as Saul Gritz
- Tyne Daly as Nancy Derman
- Bill Macy as Sid Spokane
- Gilda Radner as Livia Machado
- Earl Boen as Marshall
- Michael Lerner as Arnie
- Joe Mantell as Larry
- William Prince as Louis Martin