Robert De Niro,
Catherine Keener,
Sean Penn,
John Turturro,
Robin Wright
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Inspired by the personal memoirs of Hollywood producer Art Linson, Barry Levinson's fictional showbiz comedy stars Robert De Niro as a struggling movie producer who has just suffered through his secon... read more
DVD Release Date: February 24, 2009
Stats: 1,381 reviews
What Just Happened? Is a unique comedy that has plenty of laughs. The comedy displayed on screen is off the wall, and may not appeal to a large audience, but this film manages to be a lot of fun. I thought the plot, though at times was well thought out, and the story was interest... read more
What Just Happened reminded me of Entourage, from beginning to end. I expected Vince and the boys to come sauntering on screen at any second. That never happened, but the movie still managed to be entertaining.
The basic story is about a few days in the life of a movie producer... read more
Robert DeNiro plays a bigtime hollywood producer who walks a constant tightrope between placating the petulant creative forces and the studio executives with the money. It's a game he plays pretty well until the combination of a film that ends with a dead dog and Bruce Willis' b... read more
A very odd film, a great star cast with a great level of acting, but the plot was incredibly boring, the highlight of which was will Bruce willis shave off his beard?
The cast just seemed a bit of overkill to me for this kind of film and whats worse is the film within the fil... read more
I'm asking the same question. This seems like Levinson's both watered down and fired up version of what he thinks non-show biz folks think Hollywood is like. Watered down in that Ben is just like us! An aging middleman going through a bad divorce. Fired up in that Bruce Willi... read more
Solid black comedy from one of my favourite filmmakers. De Niro is good, Bruce Willis is hilarious, and the rest of the cast performs ably too. Well worth the watch: not great, but far from a letdown. More conceptually funny than laugh-a-minute funny, I really liked it.
A very well done comedy that has a refreshing performance from Robert De Niro. There were some great cameos from Sean Penn and Bruce Willis, who really made it a fun experience. The story is very original and captures the Hollywood backdrop quite nicely.
Two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks in the world of a middle-aged Hollywood producer as he tries to juggle an actual life with an outrageous series of crises in his day job. Ben is besieged by people who want him all to be sorts of things -- a money maker, an ego... read more
What a waste of great actors. There are certain scenes and certain performances that make you really pissed off that the rest of the movie is, at times, a student film. There is proof in this film that Bruce Willis gets the most out of any role (even when it is playing himself) a... read more
What Just Happened? is just a plain clumsy movie. Full Review
What Just Happened? has already happened and, to everyone but Levinson, that shouldn't be surprising. Full Review
The sharpest Hollywood satire since The Player. Full Review
You'd probably need a veteran Hollywood psychiatrist to explain Tinseltown's fascination with its own muck. Full Review
In What Just Happened, we get a loving tribute to the movie business filled with disdain for the ethics of the people who work in the business. Full Review
There are cutting laughs along the way, and Keener plays the hard-nosed studio chief with an insider's acumen, but, really, Entourage is better than this. Full Review
Movies about Hollywood are as common as Jolie babies, and there have been broader, funnier, meaner takes on the business than this one. But this Barry Levinson version of real-life producer Art Linson... Full Review
This satire is a perfect sendup of Hollywood with a marvelous cast, including De Niro in his best performance in years. Full Review
Sometimes silly, often scathingly funny, What Just Happened? finally possesses a winning mix of toughness and heart. Full Review
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