Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Pat Hobby Teamed with Genius (TV)
1987 · Movie · min. · United Kingdom
Hollywood hack Pat Hobby lands a job adapting a play by the brilliant Rene Wilcox for the screen. Wilcox refuses to work with him and Hobby believes he has written the script on his own. He steals it, makes a few changes, then submits it. The studio immediately recognizes it as a different script which has previously been submitted and rejected. When Wilcox realizes what has happened, he insists that Hobby work with him once more, but only uses him to model a particularly sorry character of his new play on him.
Direction Rob Thompson
Cast Christopher Lloyd · Colin Firth · J. P. Finnegan · Joseph Campanella · Joseph V. Perry · Al Mancini · David Hart · Paul Tauger · Beau William Starr · Dennis Franz · Rico Guarnieri · Beverly Sanders · Gwil Richards · Kevin Bash · W. Ernest Bown · Molly Hagan
Screenplay Rob Thompson · F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cinematography Newton Thomas Sigel
Original title Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Pat Hobby Teamed with Genius (TV)
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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