A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
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- Director
- Robert Altman
- Writers
- Michael Tolkin, Avenue Pictures
- Studios
- Avenue Pictures, Spelling Entertainment, Addis Wechsler Pictures
Cast
Griffin Mill, a Hollywood movie studio vice-president in charge of securing story ideas from writers which entails listening to a series of twenty-five second pitches day after day, is facing a number of issues in his life. He is in a so-called serious relationship with one of his story editors Bonnie Sherow, a woman who he deep down doesn't even really like and who is probably smarter than he is when it comes to the work of their department. Rumors abound that he will soon be demoted or perhaps even fired and replaced by Larry Levy, a younger more ambitious executive from another studio. But probably the worst issue is that he has been receiving death threats from an anonymous source, always via hand written postcards usually making their way to his desk via the studio's mail system. All he knows is that the threats are coming from a writer he had pissed off in the past by not getting back to him after a story pitch as he said he would do. Griffin believes that the person making the threats is David Kahane, a writer he had only met once at a pitch meeting. As such, Griffin decides to find David, and slowly confront him about the threats. At that meeting, Griffin physically…
