A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.
Robert Wuhl
as Marvin Landisman
Martin Landau
as Jack Roth
Jace Alexander
as Stuart Stratland Jr.
Robert De Niro
as Evan M. Wright
Laurie Metcalf
as Rachel Landisman
Eli Wallach
as George Lieberhof
Danny Aiello
as Carmine Rasso
Sheryl Lee Ralph
as Beverly Dumont
Jean Smart
as Patricia Riley
Tuesday Knight
as Peggy Pauline
Christopher Walken
as Warren Zell
Ernest Borgnine
as Himself
