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Release Date: 29 August, 2000 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $13.48 You SAVE: $1.50! Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
Swimming with Sharks Reviews
As Good as American Beauty
American Beauty is by far one of my favorite films to watch, and the main reason is because it is so fun watching Spacey play with his characters. That is what Swimming with Sharks was like. I saw it a few weeks after A.B. came out, thinking that it wouldn't be much since it was before Spacey was really famous and it was a low budget movie. I was wrong. This movie equals to American Beauty in the sense that Kevin Spacey creates a character that you will never forget. Even if you hate this movie, you will have fun just watching Spacey get into his character, such as the jackass in this movie, Buddy Ackerman. This movie keeps you watching it the whole time and the dialogue is very funny and memorable! RENT THIS MOVIE
Neglected masterpiece is Spacey's best
Frank Whaley is ostensibly the star of this blackest of comedies but it's Kevin Spacey who steals the show. His performance as Buddy Ackerman - heartless Hollywood powerbroker behind "ball-shaking" action blockbusters - will have you cringing and crying with laughter at the same time. But it isn't all gags, or at least its gags have a higher purpose - and that's the real genius of this film. Beneath the heinous abuse and delightful revenge, George Huang has delivered a tightly written commentary on how the "career vs. creativity" struggle can torture even the most well-intended innocent into a shape he would scarcely recognise. And its satire on the politics of power doesn't only apply to Hollywood. The manipulations and humiliations, at least in spirit, will be familiar to office workers everywhere. This is a terrific movie, which perhaps suffered by being released almost simultaneously with Spacey's breakthrough films - "Seven" and "The Usual Suspects". Had it been released a year or two later, I can't help thinking Spacey would have earned an Oscar for it and dragged George Huang's wonderful screenplay to the podium with him. Or perhaps Hollywood isn't quite ready to reward a film which tells it like it is.
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