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Director:
Ken Selden
Writers:
Paul Chart (writer)
Ken Selden (writer)
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Release Date:
15 May 1997 (Germany) more
Genre:
Comedy more
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A sting in the tale more (1 total)

Cast

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Julie Warner ... Mimi Furst

Larry Gilliard Jr. ... Leon Turner / Leon Chame

Terry Kinney ... Richard Marx

Rosanna Arquette ... Junkie Artist

Harvey Fierstein ... Art Hoarder

Daryl Mitchell ... Mark (as Daryl 'Chill' Mitchell)

Lisa Nicole Carson ... Glinda
Caroline Aaron ... Virginia Past
Novella Nelson ... Leon's Mother
Angela Hall ... Clooey

Jared Harris ... Jacob Reese
Robinson Frank Adu ... Leon's Father

Emmanuel Cohn ... Painter at Museum
Madison Arnold ... Ernie

Zach Grenier ... Terry Seabrooks
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Runtime:
Germany:94 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Germany:o.Al. (bw)

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
A sting in the tale, 24 April 2000
7/10
Author: Steven Reynolds from Sydney, Australia

A young black man pretends he is an art student in order to pick up girls at the Guggenheim Museum. When the attractive - and white - assistant director of a SoHo gallery overhears him, she assumes he is an artist and offers to exhibit his work. He plays along when she suggests how much he could earn from "his" paintings. Within days he's living a double life, paying a formally-trained artist junkie for her rejected works, and falling in love with the assistant director. Things very quickly get way out of hand. This is rather conventional plotting - we've all seen the "double-life with romantic complications" scenario many times before. This film's strength, however, lies in its use of that scenario to critique, quite savagely, both the New York art scene and black/white power relations. It exposes the lies at the heart of both in a very economical and satisfying way.

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