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- 2007
- R
- Rainbow Releasing
- 1 h 40 m
- 2007
- R
- Rainbow Releasing
- 1 h 40 m
Summary Hollywood Dreams follows the journey of a young woman from a small town in Iowa who arrives in Los Angeles deeply scarred by certain events in her childhood and profoundly obsessed with a life-long dream of achieving fame and stardom. (Rainbow Releasing)
Directed By: Henry Jaglom
Written By: Henry Jaglom
- 2007
- R
- Rainbow Releasing
- 1 h 40 m
- 2007
- R
- Rainbow Releasing
- 1 h 40 m
Hollywood Dreams
52
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Mixed or Average
6.0
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Summary Hollywood Dreams follows the journey of a young woman from a small town in Iowa who arrives in Los Angeles deeply scarred by certain events in her childhood and profoundly obsessed with a life-long dream of achieving fame and stardom. (Rainbow Releasing)
Directed By: Henry Jaglom
Written By: Henry Jaglom
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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38% Positive
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38% Mixed
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5 Reviews
23% Negative
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3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
52
38% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
23% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Frederick is the key to the movie and she's definitely an impressive new talent, someone who can really hold the screen and who delivers something striking or memorable in every scene.
Jaglom's scruffy style doesn't carry it through. He puts enough toxic insincerity on screen to singe, though.
Once again brushing aside critical drubbings and public indifference, determined independent auteur Henry Jaglom follows up the abysmal "Let's Go Shopping" with something far better: an old-school Hollywood cautionary tale about -- what else? -- Hollywood.
It's unclear whether Frederick's an awful actress or a tremendous one pretending to be awful, but either way, it's hard to pity her nasal, pushy, babyish Iowa girl.
It's a very mixed bag. When it's good, Hollywood Dreams is corrosively funny and unexpectedly poignant. And when it's bad, it's over-the-top bad.
Meant to be an insider's tale, but it feels like it comes from the cinema of hangers-on.
Jaglom's 14th consists of his usual weakly improvised relationship comedy.
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Based on 4 User Ratings
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Based on 4 User Ratings
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