This has problems: Victoria Tennant often looks as if she weren't part of the movie; it makes jokes for the sake of the jokes more than for the sake of the whole. But I loved it, because Steve Martin draws my empathy powerfully, because it's very funny, and witty too, and because it satirizes Los Angeles intensely yet in a civilized, good-humored way. It's highly reminiscent of the delightful All of Me. Its overlap with some Woody Allen movies is large. Its references to other movies are many; its introductory footage is an homage/parody of the beginning of La Dolce Vita.
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