Review of Hollywood Heartbreak

I was teetering between a five and a six, but finally decided for the latter based on the downright low-budget charm of this movie. It's a film within a film set-up, which revolves around an aspiring screenwriter trying to sell his (ridiculously noncommercial) screenplay about mother-son incest in a post-apocalyptic bunker to a succession of sleazy movie producers who his agent (whose office is a phone booth) got him meetings with. As the writer starts his pitch, the film will switch to an on-screen dramatization of the movie the writer is pitching. Although I don't know this for sure, I'd have to bet that the director of this work was making the incest movie for real, decided that he'd never sell it, and decided to cut his losses by using half of it and wedging it in with the parts about selling the script. Which brings up strange complications when you think that the whole thing might have been inspired by the actual making of the incest movies, and then you get one big meta mess, but- I don't know if that's the case or not, but this movie ended up being relatively unique, and I've seen a ton of crap movies. The happy ending seemed tagged on though. Oh well.