Film

Mistress

1992 · 1h 50m · Comedy · Drama

The Director Had A Vision. The Producers All Had Girlfriends.

IMDb

5.4

Rotten Tomatoes

72%

Metacritic

63

A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.

Robert Wuhl

Marvin Landisman

Martin Landau

Jack Roth

Jace Alexander

Stuart Stratland Jr.

Robert De Niro

Evan M. Wright

Laurie Metcalf

Rachel Landisman

Eli Wallach

George Lieberhof

Danny Aiello

Carmine Rasso

Sheryl Lee Ralph

Beverly Dumont

Jean Smart

Patricia Riley

Tuesday Knight

Peggy Pauline

Christopher Walken

Warren Zell

Ernest Borgnine

Himself

Vasek Simek

Hans (as Vasek C. Simek)

Thomas R. Voth

Stagehand

Mary Mercier

Shelby's Waitress

Chuck Low

Benrie

• Barry PrimusDirector · Story · Screenplay
• J.F. LawtonWriter
• Meir TeperProducer
• Robert De NiroProducer
• Ruth CharnyExecutive Producer
• Sven KirstenDirector of Photography
• Galt MacDermotOriginal Music Composer
• Steven WeisbergEditor
• Gail LevinCasting

Release date

July 24, 1992

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

R

Revenue

$1,102,469

Genres

Comedy, Drama

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