Written and Directed by Tom DiCillo
This is about a quest. No, not exactly, that’s kind of tangential, it is about sex, love, careers, supermodels and unfunny jokes.
Bob(Maxwell Caulfield) is an actor working as a waiter for Ernst(Christopher Lloyd) at the Metropolitan Museum’s restaurant along with Joe(Matthew Modine). It is he who is on a quest for a “real blonde” i.e. one who doesn’t use peroxide on her hair. Meanwhile...
Sahara(Bridgette Wilson) is a supermodel. She works for Blair the photographer(Marlo Thomas) and is good buddies with Mary(Catherine Keener), a makeup artist .
Sahara, by the way, is sleeping with Bob. Mary is living with Joe, who has fantasies about Tina(Elizabeth Berkley), whom he passes on the street...get it?
Bob gets a job on a soap, something Joe dismisses as gouache, but hey, it pays, and he gets to bed down with soap star Kelly(Daryl Hannah).
It would be nice if this were funny, and there are a couple of good lines here and there but for the most part, the whole thing falls flat.
This is a mediocre, predictable attempt at comedy and it’s amazing how such an unmemorable script attracted such a wonderful cast.
Sahara and Joe(who never meet) are the only ones who are the least bit sympathetic, and they’re little more than ciphers. Everyone else is a cardboard cutout. Who cares if they have problems?
It makes one wonder why independent filmmakers can’t make comedies..
