BEL AIR - Christopher Coppola Dec 05, 7:00 PM
Director-Christopher Coppola Comedy, Drama 110 minute runtime
Dec 05, 7:00 PM
7:00 PM, NEW PEOPLE CINEMA 1746 Post Street, San Francisco, CA, USA
Below is written by Dennis Harvey
Daring to tread in the footsteps of Billy Wilder, Paul Morrissey and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christopher Coppola's tongue-in-cheek spin on SUNSET BOULEVARD stars brother Marc (a ringer for third sibling Nicolas Cage, an executive producer here) as a pizza delivery guy who dreams of recapturing his onetime glory as a child television star. Delivering a pie, he's adopted as protégé and sex toy by a wealthy, retired broadcast executive (Barbara Bain, who starred on the original 1960s MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE series). While this appears to be a stroke of good fortune, it increasingly becomes more of a curse for our hapless hero. Coppola's usual penchant for eccentric casting gives colorful supporting roles to the likes of R&B legend Lou Rawls and scream queen Jennifer Rubin. -Â