Fresh
The picture's raison d'etre has to be Spacey's 'loud and nasty' performance: he's the sort of actor who grabs you by the throat and beats you about the head without ever lifting his feet from the desk.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Swimming with Sharks
In Hollywood his dreams could come true. But first he has to make coffee.
1994 · 1h 33m · R
Comedy, Crime
Directed by
George Huang
Overview
Guy is a young film executive who's willing to do whatever it takes to make it in Hollywood. He begins working for famed producer Buddy Ackerman, a domineering, manipulative, coldhearted boss. When Guy also finds out that his cynical girlfriend, Dawn, has been using sex as a career move, he reaches his limit. Guy decides to exact revenge on Buddy by kidnapping him and subjecting him to cruel and unusual punishment.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
78%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Mr. Spacey's Buddy is a caricature so dazzling that even Buddy might have to say something nice about it: cool, withering, studiously suave, and spurred by impulses that might seem peevish even in a 2-year-old child.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten
This excessively talky, incoherently plotted, would-be film noir is not very good.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Rotten
To outsiders, all this rage and gnashing of teeth may seem silly and self-absorbed.
Peter Rainer, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Sharks is a one-joke movie, and the joke wears thin less than halfway through.
Mary Brennan, Film.com
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