Cannes Man, a.k.a Con Man, is a Richard Martini directed film with cameo's by Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, Jim Jarmusch, Benicio del Toro Dennis Hooper and Julian Lennon, about the way fortunes are made and lost in the film industry http://inadepptrance.wordpress.com/feed











 

CANNES MAN
(A.K.A. CON MAN)

1996

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Director: Richard Martini

Writers:
  • Deric Haddad
  • Richard Martini
  • Irwin M. Rapaport
  • Susan Shapiro








With
: Seymour Cassel, Francesco Quinn, Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Jim Jarmusch, Rebecca Broussard, Kevin Pollak, John Malkovich, Treat Williams, Dennis Hopper, Julian Lennon --- and many more celebs acting as themselves....


Rating: R








 





 

 

 


 



SYNOPSIS

The Cannes Film Festival. It's where deals get made, producers get laid, and stars get paid. It's where all the movie industry meets to buy and sell all the movies on the planet. And it's where the art of the deal can be filled with more laughs than the deal itself.

Sy Lerner is the quintessential movie producer, when he makes a bet that he can take any kid off the street and turn him into a superstar overnight using the universal language of the festival: hype. He meets Frank Rhinoslavsky and turns him into 'Frank Rhino, one of the hottest screenwriters to hit Cannes since Faulkner and Hemingway.'

It's not long before celebrities and producers are lining up to meet this hot young star. Dennis Hopper, Treat Williams, Johnny Depp, John Malkovich and more, all want to meet the 'next Quentin Tarantino.' Sy charms them with his own particular blend of hype and substance, and by the end of the festival, has lined up one of the great casts of all time. But Sy Lerner still has a few tricks up his sleeve for his wife, Frank Rhino and the myriad of people that have invested in this nonexistent, non-scripted film.

He drops dead. And all the money the invested in his film goes up in smoke. But in the end, Sy Lerner has pulled the ultimate con, making him truly the one and only, 'Cannes Man.'
Written by Clint Weiler



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"SPIRITUAL".....

Exerpt from the film's dialogue:


Sy Lerner:
"This is a very spiritual film. This is a film written by a poet, whose father was a poet, one of the great American cowboy poets."

Sy Lerner: [to Jim Jarmusch] "And in fact, this is the kind of film that you would be perfect to direct. Now I don't know if you could handle a budget that big, 25 million, 'cause you're not used to working with that..."

Jim Jarmusch: "Hey, I could handle any budget - 100 million - but I'm on a level above the earth right now. I'm interested in spiritual... "

Johnny Depp: "We're floating. Right now, we're floating. Jim and I are above you."


 

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Source: IMDb


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