Character mistake: When Guy and his girlfriend are discussing why he loves the movies and how they help him remember important times in his life, Guy makes a reference to the obscure 1979 basketball movie The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, and says how he loved Gabe Kaplan in it. Gabe Kaplan was never in The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, but did star in a different obscure basketball movie from 1979 called Fast Break.
Swimming with Sharks (1994)
Plot summary
Directed by: George Huang
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Benicio Del Toro, Frank Whaley, Michelle Forbes
Buddy Ackerman (Kevin Spacey), a big time movie producer on the rise, hires young Guy (Frank Whaley) to be his assistant. Guy thinks he's finally hit the big time. But Buddy has other ideas. He torments Guy with petty requests and daily reamings. Guy decides that he is fed up with Buddy's torture and goes to Buddy's house and ties him up and begins to take his revenge out on Buddy when he finds out that Guy's girlfriend Dawn (Michelle Forbes), a script writer/producer who has "screwed" her way to the top, is going to Buddy's house to discuss her movie project with him (actually to screw Buddy in hopes that he will help her make her movie entitled "Real Life"). As Guy is torturing Buddy, Dawn arrives and ...
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Buddy: You're happy. I hate that.
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