Directed by: Brad Radby
Starring: Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, Bruce Willis, Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins
Critics Average: 1.5/5 Stars
Box Office (US): $68M
BRAD RADBY’S SYNOPSIS
At the start of the movie, Ben Affleck is a young doctor, and he knows how to make people who have the Big C feel better. One day his girlfriend, who is Minnie Driver, is being whiney, and she makes Ben switch his job to being a young businessman.
That’s when Ben gets his new mysterious boss, who is Al Pacino. Al spends a lot of time yelling his big speeches about being a team player and making money, and he slams the expensive office doors when he does this.
Ben’s other boss, who is Bruce Willis, is good and bad at once, because nobody is supposed to know if he’s trying to help or hurt. Bruce says Ben can’t tell anyone he used to be a young doctor and that’s the meme in this one. Bruce has a dead wife, so Ben knows he’s serious about life.
One day at the businessman cigar club, Ben finds out his Minnie Driver is also Al’s secret wife, and that she’s from England. The double-crosses are happening everywhere, and it turns out Bruce is bad, and Al knows it, and Minnie knew also, even though she’s never met Bruce. When Ben finds this last one out, he pulls the fire alarm and runs down the street in the rain, and he’s holding important files when he does this.
Al has a ponytail.
Ben meets up with Bruce at a bikini party, because it turns out he’s good again, and is in the FBI, and was only pretending to be bad to trick Al. He also works for the CIA on the weekends, and that’s another secret he keeps, even from the FBI, but not from Al. Later at the party, Minnie hits Ben on his shoulder with a gold bar, and it knocks him out, and Al looks down at him and goes, “HOOOOOO-AHHHHH…!” and that’s in slow motion because of the shoulder hit.
When Ben wakes up, he’s tied up in the hospital, and he has a huge bruise on his shoulder. Al is in a bed with medicine tubes in his face and arms, and Ben has to operate on him, because if he doesn’t, Bruce will kill Minnie. It turns out all the schemes were because Al has the Big C, and only Ben can get it to leave Al alone.
Ben does the doctoring, but first he turns on a secret voice recorder and tricks Al into saying everything he did that was bad and a double-cross. Ben sends it to Minnie’s dad, who is Anthony Hopkins. Everyone gets arrested as Al wakes up from his Big C surgery, and Ben tells Al that he left a sponge in his tummy, and then he winks at him.
As Ben walks into the sunset with Minnie, he has a smile and waves to the camera, because he learned his lesson about greed.
BRAD RADBY’S PRODUCTION NOTES
1) In the scene where everyone had blue lips and mouths, well my mom was there that day and she made her special homemade popsicles.
2) Yummy, yummy, in everyone’s tummies!
3) They were blue popsicles.
4) At the end I was gonna have them go surfing and wave to the camera, but mom said I should just have the waving and no surfing.
5) Al’s ponytail was special effects, and everyone said it looked fake, so no more ponytails is what I started thinking.
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