Meeting Spencer (2011)
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36% of critics liked it
(11 reviews) -
50% of users liked it
(62 ratings)
A celebrated Broadway director finds his life turned upside down while attempting to raise funding for his big comeback in this contemporary screwball comedy starring Jeffrey Tambor. Harris Chappell (Tambor) wasn't made for Hollywood. When his movie career hits the skids, he hightails it right… More A celebrated Broadway director finds his life turned upside down while attempting to raise funding for his big comeback in this contemporary screwball comedy starring Jeffrey Tambor. Harris Chappell (Tambor) wasn't made for Hollywood. When his movie career hits the skids, he hightails it right back to Manhattan. Harris is convinced that he can recapture his status as one of Broadway's leading directors, and heads straight for Frankie & Johnnie's for a meeting with his ex Didi (Melinda McGraw) and a talented young actor named Spencer (Jesse Plemons). All Harris needs is one unqualified hit to re-launch his career, but as the night wears on nothing goes as planned, both his resolve and his sanity gradually begin to erode. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Malcolm Mowbray
- Genres
- Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Apr 8, 2011 Limited
- On DVD
- Mar 6, 2012
- Studio
- Paladin
Critic Reviews
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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Mowbray has some fine credits, including "A Private Function," but he and his cast cannot breathe life into such hopeless material.
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Kyle Smith, New York Post
At best a sporadically amusing sketchbook of theater types.
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Neil Genzlinger, New York Times
Isn't quite savvy enough to compete with the slyest entries in that genre or madcap enough to run with the zaniest.
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Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
This painfully unfunny comedy set in the theater world is no All About Eve.
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Ronnie Scheib, Variety
Within the confines of its stagy artificiality, the thesping mostly rings true.
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Cast
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Jeffrey Tambor
as Harris Chappell
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Melinda McGraw
as Didi, Didi Ravenal
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Jesse Plemons
as Spencer West
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Yvonne Zima
as Sophia Martinelli
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Jill Marie Jones
as Nikki Ross
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William Morgan Sheppard
as Larry Lind
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Anthony Russell
as Peter
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Marcello Cacioppo
as Nicholas
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Markus Flanagan
as Man in Bar
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Roberto Sanchez
as Ricardo
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Robert Catrini
as Alphonso
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Caroline Aaron
as Nancy Diamond
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Mark Harelik
as David Thiel
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Ralph P. Martin
as Bart Liebowitz
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Don Stark
as Matthew Wolf
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Laura Alcalde
as Wolf's Mom
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Julian Bailey
as Todd Emerson
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Brian McGovern
as Monte Sobel
- Kristen Eck
