Living in Oblivion

Low budget director Nick Reve (Steve Buscemi) can’t get his small-scale, intimate, simple drama properly onto film, no matter how hard he tries. His leading lady, Nicole Springer (Catherine Keener) is doing fine, but having doubts about her talent. His cameraman Wolf (Dermot Mulroney) is a preening fool who wears an unnecessary eyepatch and lets his work be affected when his girlfriend Wanda (Danielle von Zerneck), the first assistant director, says she’s through with him. And his ‘star’, Chad Palomino (James LeGros) is a womanizing ignoramus who specializes in bedding the talent and making a nuisance of himself on the set. If Nick could just get a simple shot in the can, just one good take, things might get better. —DVDsavant.com