Hijacking Hollywood (1997)

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A supposedly powerless production assistant shows a major movie mogul just how important he can be in this satiric comedy. Kevin Conroy (Henry Thomas) is a film student from Michigan who moves to Hollywood in hopes of getting his foot in the door of the movie industry. Kevin has a script he's been… More A supposedly powerless production assistant shows a major movie mogul just how important he can be in this satiric comedy. Kevin Conroy (Henry Thomas) is a film student from Michigan who moves to Hollywood in hopes of getting his foot in the door of the movie industry. Kevin has a script he's been trying to shop around entitled "Three Days in a Salt Mine," but in the meantime he gets a job as a production assistant on the upcoming summer blockbuster Moby Dick II. Michael Lawrence (Mark Metcalf), the film's producer, has made a career out of taking classic novels and turning them into money-spinning tripe, and he expects this will be no exception; Michael is a terror to work for, and his lazy and stunningly foul-mouthed assistant Russell Bernside (Scott Thompson) is even worse. But Kevin and his roommate Tad Sheen (Neil Mandt) come up with a plan that will allow Kevin to get revenge and funding for his own project at the same time. One of Kevin's many jobs is to supervise the shipping of the exposed film to the processing lab; by hijacking Moby Dick II's very expensive special effects sequences and holding them for ransom, he's taken the future of the very expensive project into his own hands, though things hardly work out the way he expected. Hijacking Hollywood marked the feature debut for writer and director Neil Mandt, who also plays Tad. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 31 min.
Directed By: Neil Mandt
Written By: Neil Mandt, Jim Rossow
Genres: Drama, Comedy

On DVD: Feb 17, 1998

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Henry Thomas (E.T) is a young college grad, who goes to Hollywood hoping to make a script that he wrote into a movie. He ends up taking a job as a Production Assistant on a big budget film called Moby Dick 2.His roommate Tad, works out a scheme to kidnap the film and hold it hostage… More
Henry Thomas (E.T) is a young college grad, who goes to Hollywood hoping to make a script that he wrote into a movie. He ends up taking a job as a Production Assistant on a big budget film called Moby Dick 2.His roommate Tad, works out a scheme to kidnap the film and hold it hostage for about $150,000. A scathing satire that would be funnier if you're familiar with the inner workings of the film industry.