Buddy Ackerman, an influential movie mogul, hires Guy, a naïve young writer, as his assistant. When Guy finds out that his cynical girlfriend has been using sex as a career move, he reaches his limit and decides to exact revenge on Buddy.
8 January 1965, Austin, Texas, USA
19 February 1967, San Germán, Puerto Rico
26 July 1959, South Orange, New Jersey, USA
26 July 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 March 1957, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
29 December 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 July 1963, Syracuse, New York, USA
26 May 1923, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK
March 18, 2008
Despite some sharp dialogue, this is a nasty, derivative film, sort of a cross between Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Altman's The Player.
April 12, 2002
This excessively talky, incoherently plotted, would-be film noir is not very good.
February 13, 2001
To outsiders, all this rage and gnashing of teeth may seem silly and self-absorbed.
June 24, 2006
The picture's raison d'être has to be Spacey's 'loud and nasty' performance: he's the sort of actor who grabs you by the throat and beats you about the head without ever lifting his feet from the desk.
January 01, 2000
The film has no subtlety, so the one-dimensional story comes across as a sophomoric, pointless tirade.
May 12, 2005
Dazzling and subversive satire on boss-employee relations.
March 23, 2005
One of the best film's of the 90's...Spacey and Whaley are staggeringly good!
June 17, 2005
It's darkly hilarious, smoothly entertaining, and almost sinfully cruel. And the finalé packs a real stinger.
July 31, 2005
...Spacey delivers one of his most memorable performances...
May 12, 2003
ascerbic but missing something
May 20, 2003
Mr. Spacey's Buddy is a caricature so dazzling that even Buddy might have to say something nice about it: cool, withering, studiously suave, and spurred by impulses that might seem peevish even in a 2-year-old child.
January 01, 2000
Sharks is a one-joke movie, and the joke wears thin less than halfway through.
