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Being Considered (2000) Falling off the British Film Mountain is this unsympathetic Britflick
insider movie, which is about a writer who can't get his scripts made
but is made from the sort of script that seems a couple of notches below
what he'd manage. Jake Spoonbender (James Drefus) is a whiny, goateed
25-year-old who looks to be in his early 30s, a Jewish American in London
who fouls up with his girlfriend (Tania Levey), whines and backbites
about his stalled screenwriting career, takes useless meetings with
his agent (Nicholas LePrevost), abuses his best friend (Adam Levy) when
he tries to persuade the girl to take him back and incites his paranoia
and cops way too many Woodysims from on-the-couch analysis sessions
to a feeble black and white Seventh Seal parody. The counterpoint sub-plot
features JoJo Garfunkel (Tom Farrelly), an Irish chancer in a Superman
t-shirt, who steals Jake's briefcase from his car and finds a disc with
a script (Going All the Way) which he rewrites and
improves (retitled Absolute Instinct), then sells to producers who have
rejected Jake and even runs into Kevin Costner (not seen) in a white
stretch limo ('The Postman'). It has a nice burbly score and gets points
for underused London and Brighton locations, but the main character
is just too much of a schmuck to win any sympathy. It's not funny, not
profound and not interesting. Written, directed, and presumably enjoyed
by Jonathan Newman. First Published: here Visit Kim's Official Website at www.johnnyalucard.com
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