Ben (De Niro) is already in over his head trying to balance the tug-of-war of having two ex-wives and two different families with his latest business venture – the boldly "visionary" movie "Fiercely" starring Sean Penn (Sean Penn) – when everything that can go wrong goes completely screwy."Fiercely" looks like an audience-offending flop which draws the ire of iron-gloved studio chief Lou (Catherine Keener), who forces him into tangling with the film's rebellious and drug-addled director Jeremy (Michael Wincott). Meanwhile, he's confused and bewitched by his ex Kelly (Robin Wright Penn) who can't make up her mind about him; shocked by his daughter Zoe (Kristen Stewart), who seems to have grown up overnight; infuriated by his screenwriter friend Scott (Stanley Tucci) who's trying to make a deal with him while making moves on his former wife; horrified by a hirsute Bruce Willis (Bruce Willis) and flummoxed by Willis' nebbishy agent Dick (John Turturro), who's scared to death of his own clients.Somehow amidst all the madness, treachery, deceit, runaway egos, rampant commercialism, personal politics and atrocious behavior of America’s dream-making machinery, Ben has to find a way not just to make it to Cannes with a finished film, but to cope.This movie is just plain boring. I'm actually sorry that I didn't shorten the synopsis paragraph and that you guys read through that whole thing. This is simply one of those movies that you throw in the towel on caring less than halfway through it. I was pretty surprised considering how much I love DeNiro. Sadly, this is one of those every 5 movies he makes clunkers and you really shouldn't waste your time.
I wouldn't recommend anyone bothering to check this out. Its totally not worth the rental fee and its not even worth the trip there and two hours of your life you could be doing or watching something so much better.
