Authentic to My Experience

Rating: 7/10 (22 July 2019)

Growing up in LA in the 80s, this movie really captured the essence of a young guy being sucked in the entertainment industry. Dave Franco was excellent if you can get past his young Tom Cruise look and energy. Anyone living in LA saw young people come and go. You meet someone who has dreams and connect and then their true motives are not revealed. You are both in and out of reality in one restaurant. Sitting next to you could be Tom Hanks, then a commercial actor the next table who did a Tide commercial, then a writer who did an episode of Bob's Burgers, then someone trying to get an agent, then a radiator mechanic. The aspiring actor is two feet from Tom Hanks but a million miles from him. Tom can play the role of an out of work actor while the out of work actor serves him a salad as a waiter. It is similar to a gardener working for a millionaire. They are on the same property but on different planets. Dave Franco really captured that enthusiasm of being naive great.