Low Budget Angels
A former movie star is offered a big comeback role, providing he can prove he’s no longer a psychotic drunk. He has to do that by showing he can maintain his sanity and sobriety while being tormented during the shooting of a low-budget movie nightmare with the most incompetent film school crew in cinematic history.
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Low Budget Angels
Though once a big film star, today Marc Clifton can’t even get an infomercial audition. Seems this Oscar winner can’t convince anyone he’s no longer a psychotic drunk. But Marc still has fans in high places. The bad news– they’re all dead. The good news–mere death can’t stop screen legends. And soon a cavalry of Hollywood angels comes fluttering to his rescue.
Leading the heavenly flock is Marc’s old pal and new guardian angel–Orson Welles. Although Marc grows dubious as he follows Welles’ advice and his predicament just gets worse, they soon stumble into a minor miracle–a big director offers Marc a comeback role. The catch: Marc must first prove his rehabilitation by staying sane and sober while completing a low-budget movie nightmare. One that would send Superman screaming to the loony bin, let alone sensitive Marc.
The director of this cheap mess is Sal, a nasty kid who just flunked film school, never made a movie, and since he hates it when anyone shows him up–he’s hired classmates who know even less than he does. Thus assembling the most incompetent film crew in cinematic history. For perfectionist Marc, working with this inept crew is agonizing torture.
Helping Marc through this ordeal are Orson’s assistants–Humphrey Bogart, a big fan of Marc’s; and Marilyn Monroe, who’s had a crush on Marc for years. And these angels certainly have their hands very full trying to protect him from the bumbling crew–from such trifles as being maimed, blown up or hurled off a cliff.
If the angels can keep Marc’s body in one piece, ruthless Sal is intent on yanking his psyche apart. Sal thinks that having Marc on the brink of another nervous breakdown will result in riveting performances for his movie. So to keep Marc teetering on the edge, he’s wired the production with an emotional mine field of situations and surprise guests.
Like the new assistant director–Marc’s ex-wife, Kate. The last time these two tangled, the turbulent passion turned Marc into a blathering basket case confined to a mental institution. But he’s still in love and desperately wants to win her back, but she doesn’t share his warm feelings in the least.
Kate’s animosity doesn’t stop Bogie and Monroe from being convinced they can put the lovebirds together. But since Welles thinks the femme fatale will derail Marc, the matchmakers must cleverly water the romance without Orson seeing a drop. Or else. And when Sal meets Kate, he wants her too and locks horns with Marc in a rapidly escalating war of spite & revenge.
And things don’t get any easier for Marc when other spices are added to the boiling set stew. Like the producer–a trigger happy Bronx mobster. And Marc’s new co-star–a porn actress bereft of talent. And then the low-budget is slashed in half. And then…