Paul Thomas obviously had his heart set on this minor Vivid vehicle for Nikki Randall in her series of successful "Brat" features, as it deals with his first love, acting.
With plenty of name-dropping (like Brando and Hoffman), Mike Horner plays a pretentious drama teacher, whose acting class is advertised on TV with his slogan "I won't teach you to act, I'll teach you to "be".
Housewife Nikki Randall is excited by the ad, and wants to sign up for his acting class, and manages to talk her skeptical husband Tom Byron into coughing up the expensive $2,600 fee for her to enroll.
Paul Thomas's script is designed to make fun of pretentious actors, and Horner does a fine job in creating an object of satire. I'm undecided regarding Nikki, as her obviously overdone bad acting is slightly amusing but it's an open question whether she is lousy strictly on purpose.
Otherwise the movie is quite corny, especially in its predictable ending. Randall is definitely an acquired taste, not beautiful and not body-beautiful either, and the rest of the movie, including a mscast Shanna McCullough playing "Mrs. Robinson" from "The Graduate" in an erotic dream by Byron, is negligible.
With plenty of name-dropping (like Brando and Hoffman), Mike Horner plays a pretentious drama teacher, whose acting class is advertised on TV with his slogan "I won't teach you to act, I'll teach you to "be".
Housewife Nikki Randall is excited by the ad, and wants to sign up for his acting class, and manages to talk her skeptical husband Tom Byron into coughing up the expensive $2,600 fee for her to enroll.
Paul Thomas's script is designed to make fun of pretentious actors, and Horner does a fine job in creating an object of satire. I'm undecided regarding Nikki, as her obviously overdone bad acting is slightly amusing but it's an open question whether she is lousy strictly on purpose.
Otherwise the movie is quite corny, especially in its predictable ending. Randall is definitely an acquired taste, not beautiful and not body-beautiful either, and the rest of the movie, including a mscast Shanna McCullough playing "Mrs. Robinson" from "The Graduate" in an erotic dream by Byron, is negligible.
