Revealing mistake: While torturing Buddy, Guy puts a CD on and hits play. Clearly the CD display says "DISC" the sign that the CD is invalid or blank, yet the dubbed music begins to play.
Swimming with Sharks (1994)
Plot summary
Directed by: George Huang
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Benicio Del Toro, Frank Whaley, Michelle Forbes
Buddy Ackerman (Kevin Spacey), a big time movie producer on the rise, hires young Guy (Frank Whaley) to be his assistant. Guy thinks he's finally hit the big time. But Buddy has other ideas. He torments Guy with petty requests and daily reamings. Guy decides that he is fed up with Buddy's torture and goes to Buddy's house and ties him up and begins to take his revenge out on Buddy when he finds out that Guy's girlfriend Dawn (Michelle Forbes), a script writer/producer who has "screwed" her way to the top, is going to Buddy's house to discuss her movie project with him (actually to screw Buddy in hopes that he will help her make her movie entitled "Real Life"). As Guy is torturing Buddy, Dawn arrives and ...
More mistakes in Swimming with Sharks
Buddy: Look, I can appreciate this. I was young too, I felt just like you. Hated authority, hated all my bosses, thought they were full of shit. Look, it's like they say, if you're not a rebel by the age of 20, you got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by 30, you've got no brains. Because there are no story-book romances, no fairy-tale endings. So before you run out and change the world, ask yourself, "What do you really want?"
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