cinema grandpas reunited in a fake western

You have loved Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019), by Quentin Tarantino? It is not certain that you adore Hollywood scam, which is the third age version. In terms of segment, we will speak vulgarly of an “old man’s film”. Excellent niche, which targets the core target of the seventh art, while surfing on the nostalgia which is in itself a very promising feeling. There are, moreover, excellent films of the genre, as evidenced for example Space Cowboys (2000), by Clint Eastwood.

Without being directed by an easily identifiable filmmaker, Hollywood scam – which comes out on VOD in France, Friday July 23 – at least has the merit of displaying in its credits the names of Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Tommy Lee Jones.

We would ask to see for less than that. The film is therefore an action comedy set in Hollywood, a remake of a film itself unknown to the battalion, The Comeback Trail, performed in 1982 by Harry Hurwitz with former 440-meter freestyle Olympic gold medalist Buster Crabbe and TV presenter Chuck McCann. The action takes place in 1974. In Los Angeles, a cinema gives its world premiere The murderous Nuns, denounced by leagues of virtue whose members demonstrate in front of the cinema, more numerous than the spectators in the room.

A few meters away, Max Barber (Robert De Niro), the film’s producer, chats with his young nephew and partner Walter. Director of Miracle Motion Pictures, his motto is: “If it’s good, it’s a miracle. “ There, we pass once again next to the miracle, and it smells scorched for Max who has further deepened his debt with Reggie Fontaine (Morgan Freeman), who is not precisely a bank, but a triggered mobster expeditious to which one does not owe without risk.

Devilish idea

It is in the meantime that Jimmy Moore, a former assistant of Max who has become somewhat of the king of Hollywood, offers to bail him out on the condition that he gives him the rights to a western script he loves. . Max is reluctant, but obtains to supervise the film whose realization is entrusted to a bimbo, and conceives in the tread a diabolical idea of ​​fraud to the insurance, intended to reimburse Reggie, who agrees to join in the scheme. It’s about hiring a retired actor for the lead role (the story of a cowboy with Indian blood running through his veins) and tweaking him as soon as possible during the shoot. A former western glory that has turned into a sort of suicidal hospice wreck will do just fine, and it’s Tommy Lee Jones who sticks to it under the resplendent name of Duke Montana, the man with the golden lasso. .

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