Buddy Ackerman (Kevin Spacey) is in a league of his own.
A powerful Hollywood producer has the uncanny ability to make and break careers with the click of his fingers. When young and ambitious Guy (Frank Whaley) is assigned as Buddy's new assistant he rises to the challenge only to be knocked down, time and time again by a tornado of abusive megalomania and personal torment.
Guy flounders in the quagmire of cruel backstabbing, bitching and lying that is a mainstay of the industry, and Buddy Ackerman is the master proponent. Unable to suffer the humiliation any further Guy schemes to turns things around and exacts vengeance in a bitter and twisted study of vitriol and revenge in the best Hollywood tradition of The Player.
