Swimming With Sharks

“Revenge” is the watchword of this black comedy that takes a keen look at the self-centeredness, blind ambition, cynicism, and amoral behavior in modern-day Hollywood. Buddy is the control-freak Hollywood production executive with a reputation for abusing his employees. He is particularly abusive to his young personal assistant Guy, a recent film-school graduate and naive Hollywood newcomer. The idealistic young Guy is routinely humiliated by Buddy. Unable to stand anymore abuse and no longer the naive idealist, Guy turns on Buddy. He ends up tying him up and then subjecting Buddy to all the sadism, and torture Buddy inflicted on others. He threatens to do even worse, but is deterred by an unexpected arrival, whose presence leads to a surprising final plot twist. The film was first shown at Telluride Film Festival as The Buddy Factor but was retitled for its general release in 1995., Buddy Ackerman is a corporate cutthroat who reigns over an entry level job anyone would kill for. The catch is, Buddy is the Boss from Hell! Ask Buddy’s personal assistant, Guy, who is eager to climb the corporate ladder. On his first day, Guy quickly learns that no opportunity this promising comes without a cost., Satire about a bullied personal assistant who decides to take revenge on his boss. When the young man starts his first job, with high hopes of building a career in the film world, he discovers he is to work for one of the most feared men in the business, a foul-mouthed, loathsome studio executive. As his treatment becomes increasingly hard to bear, he decides to exact a grim revenge against the tyrant., A recent film-school grad gets a dream job as a personal assistant to a Hollywood mogul, who not only tyrannizes him, but also takes credit for his script., A young Hollywood executive becomes the assistant to a big time movie producer who is the worst boss imaginable: abusive, abrasive and cruel. But soon things turn around when the young executive kidnaps his boss and visits all the cruelties back on him., Satire about a bullied personal assistant who decides to take revenge on his boss. When the young man starts his first job with high hopes of building a career in the film world, he discovers he is to work for one of the most feared men in the business, a foul-mouthed, loathsome studio executive. As his treatment becomes increasingly hard to bear, he decides to exact a grim revenge against the tyrant.