The TV Set (Blu-ray)
A place where dreams are cancelled.
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 15, 2020
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | David Duchovny, Sigourney Weaver & Ioan Gruffudd | |
Performer: | Judy Greer, Fran Kranz, Lindsay Sloane, Lucy Davis, Willie Garson & Justine Bateman | |
Directed by | Jake Kasdan | |
Edited by | Tara Timpone | |
Screenwriting by | Jake Kasdan | |
Composition by | Michael Andrews | |
Produced by | Aaron Ryder | |
Director of Photography: | Uta Brierewitz | |
Executive Production by | Judd Apatow |
Entertainment Reviews:
[I]t's full of sly insider jabs at the inanity of the process, and the performances are spot-on.
Sight and Sound
[T]his very smart, very funny movie about the making of a network sitcom is a cut-glass gem of a showbiz conceit. -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Honestly, isn't it a little late to be bemoaning sleazy reality TV?
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Miami Herald
The TV Set is a little wonder of a movie, as smart and sad and true as any comedy I've seen this year.
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Slate
Rating: B- --
A facile but likable send-up of how things (don't) work in Hollywood.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rating: 3/4 --
David Duchovny owns this movie
sbs.is
Rating: 3.5/5 --
It's interesting and funny and agonizing and illuminating to know what happens before you get that first annoying animated promo for a new show. For fans of: Undeclared, Studio 60.
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Cinerina
Product Description:
Go to any bar in Hollywood and you're sure to find a hard-done-by writer who is drowning his or her sorrows after being chewed up and spat out by the network television system. In THE TV SET, Mike Klein (David Duchovny) seems set to join them. Klein's script for a TV show called THE WEXLER CHRONICLES was inspired by his brother's suicide, and is very close to his heart. After selling the script to PDN, who are headed by a fearsome executive simply known as Lenny (Sigourney Weaver), Klein watches as everything from the casting to the production goes horribly wrong. Klein has one buddy at the network, a Brit named Richard McCallister. McCallister's former position at the BBC leads Klein to believe that some quality control will be exerted over his project, and hopes McCallister will pull it out of the mire of mundanity that PDN thrives on. But he's very, very wrong, and as Klein's dream turns into dust--the show barely resembles anything he wrote--his health takes a turn for the worse and he enters mid-life-crisis mode.
Duchovny and Weaver are outstanding in their roles, adding just the right balance of humor and anger to their characters. THE TV SET is ostensibly a comedy, but may make for painful viewing for anyone involved in the industry, or anyone who hates seeing dreams shattered. But director Jake Kasdan (ZERO EFFECT) manages to add a large dose of absurdity to the proceedings, saving it from being too depressing, and making many of the scenes a genuine hoot.
Duchovny and Weaver are outstanding in their roles, adding just the right balance of humor and anger to their characters. THE TV SET is ostensibly a comedy, but may make for painful viewing for anyone involved in the industry, or anyone who hates seeing dreams shattered. But director Jake Kasdan (ZERO EFFECT) manages to add a large dose of absurdity to the proceedings, saving it from being too depressing, and making many of the scenes a genuine hoot.
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