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Mood:
- WittyBitingCleverCynical
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Plot:
- Ego ClashMedia SatireTV ShowMediaMind and SoulWorkplaceBlind AmbitionContests and Competitions more...
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Genres:
- DramaComedy
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Time/Period:
- 70s90s
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Humor:
- SatireDark Humor
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Flag:
- Drugs/AlcoholViolent Content
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The Final Curtain, 2002
English
UK, USA
Profile of The Final Curtain
The Final Curtain can be described as biting, witty, and cynical. The plot revolves around an ego clash, a TV show, and media satire. Its comic aspect comes from dark humor and satire. The Final Curtain's main genres are drama and comedy. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place in the 1990s. Note that The Final Curtain involves drugs/alcohol and violent content.
Summary of The Final Curtain
O'Toole (Phantoms, My Favorite Year) plays an aging (and ailing) game show host in the UK, who hires on a writer (Lester, Maybe Baby) to write his biography as a testament to his greatness after he passes. Meanwhile, there is another hotshot game show host (Gillem, Shanghai Knights) threatening to take his crown as the #1 show, and he is fiercely competitive to secure the rights to taking the show to America as well. There is no end to the madness and mayhem for these feuding egotists.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, USA |
| Runtime: | 85 min |
Cast and Crew
as J.J. Curtis
as Jonathan Stitch
as Dave Turner
as Karen Willet
