Product Details

• Actors: Robert Wuhl, Martin Landau, Vasek Simek, Thomas R. Voth, Jace Alexander
• Directors: Barry Primus
• Format: Color, EP, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Avid Home Ent
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 112 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303343090
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #88,515 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant Hollywood comedy, September 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Mistress (DVD)

Do not miss this picture! This is the film that blows away all the other "movie industry" comedies of the last few years. If you liked "Swimming with Sharks" or "The Player," you will love "Mistress." Eli Wallach should be on the cover of this DVD along with Wuhl, Landau, De Niro, and Aiello. You couldn't ask for a more perfect cast, and I don't know how Barry Primus brought them all together. The only down side to this DVD release seems to be the 1.33:1 "full screen" image format. I wish they had released this in the theatrical aspect ratio, since I've been wondering what I've missed by seeing only the VHS release. This is a brilliant and subtle comedy for movie fans everywhere.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Indie filmmaking gets an intelligent send-up, May 12, 2002

By	Gerald P. Owens (Pompano Beach, FL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Mistress (DVD)

If you want an insider's perpsective on the movie biz, two films that were released in 1992 give a view of the top and the bottom of the Hollywood food chain. "The Player" is a delightful black comedy about the top rung, the major studio insider who has the power to say "yes" just twelve times a year and green-light a big-budget movie (trouble ensues when he murders a particularly troublesome screenwriter). The opposite end of the food chain is lampooned in "Mistress," where we get an insider's view of trying to get an independent film financed. Filmmaking is the most expensive of hobbies, and compromises must be made. Two writers and a washed-up producer get three businessmen on the hook as possible backers, but each has a mistress, who needs a part... It's a delightful exploration of how far can one compromise artistic integrity just to get a story in front of the cameras. Martin Landau is a delight as the has-been producer, and Robert Wuhl is wonderful as the bemused screenwriter whose vision is rewritten into exploitative shlock. Both funny and sad, these are men who have sacrificed everything that matters in pursuit of the Hollywood dream.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's about the bimbo... or is it?, September 3, 2000

By	Regent St. Claire (Santa Monica, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mistress (DVD)

Martin Landau ("Ed Wood," "Space 1999") leads a super cast through the ringer as they all try to get a film bankrolled. The connecting thread here is that "the other woman" who most of the potential financiers are boffing - is one and the same bimbo! The most unique angle to "Mistress" is how it refuses to portray the writers, actors, or other normally high-pedestaled creative types, as any more pure, or noble, or reasonable to deal with, than anyone else in this wacky business.