:11:00
3.5 million dollars! I'm sorry. Excuse me.
:11:04
Do you believe that? 3.5 million dollars. This
picture is gonna go right through the roof.
:11:09
Right through... the roof.
:11:13
Look at those reviews. See it?
We did it. Joe, we did it.
:11:18
Where are the bad ones?
:11:20
There are no bad ones.
:11:22
Josh...
:11:24
Well, there were a couple that
quibbled a little. I left them at the office.
:11:28
Josh, I want you to do me a favor -
don't show them to me.
:11:32
Never. How were the television reviews?
:11:35
I think we got Leslie Perry.
At the screening, she told me she loved it.
:11:39
Following Gideon's triumphant directorial
achievement with "50 Beautiful Girls, 50,"
:11:45
when he won every possible award,
:11:47
it would be nice to report that
Mr. Gideon's latest effort, "The Standup,"
:11:52
starring Davis Newman, was a better film.
:11:55
Oh, boy, here it comes.
:11:59
Joey, turn it off, please.
:12:01
... falls into his characteristic weakness
of trying too hard to please, to entertain.
:12:06
- Josh, no. I wanna hear it.
- The razzle-dazzle sometimes obliterates...
:12:11
- What does she know?
- She never gives a good review.
:12:14
That woman is totally unqualified
to criticize anything.
:12:18
- She doesn't know a damn thing about film.
- Or anything.
:12:22
She's not even reviewing a film.
She's telling you how clever she is.
:12:26
... where the has-been comic,
played impeccably by Davis Newman,
:12:30
demonstrates his former
brilliance in a monologue
:12:33
where clearly director Gideon
gave Mr. Newman free rein.
:12:37
Rising above rather commonplace material,
the actor creates a classic comic...
:12:43
I guarantee this picture
will do 30 million domestic, at least.
:12:47
- One of you better get somebody.
- What?
:12:51
I think I'm in trouble.
:12:53
... chopping off the ends of scenes
before the drama is played out,
:12:56
left this reviewer with bewilderment
and a four-aspirin headache.