PREVIEW: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Nicolas Cage (Face/Off), Pedro Pascal (Wonder Woman 1984), Sharon Horgan (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie), Lily Sheen (Underworld: Evolution), Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip), Ike Barinholtz (Blockers), Jacob Scipio (Bad Boys for Life), Neil Patrick Harris (The Matrix Resurrections), Alessandra Mastronardi (To Rome with Love), Paco León (Toc Toc)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Tom Gormican (That Awkward Moment), director, writer; Kevin Etten (film debut), writer; Kristin Burr (Cruella), Nicolas Cage (Pig), Michael Nilon (Willy’s Wonderland) and Kevin Turen (X), producers; Mark Isham (Crash), composer; Nigel Bluck (The Peanut Butter Falcon), cinematographer; Melissa Bretherton (Spy), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Nick Cage (Cage) is a world-famous actor facing creative unfulfillment and financial ruin, when he is suddenly offered $1 million to attend the birthday party of Javi Gutierrez (Pascal), a wealthy but dangerous Cage superfan. However, when CIA operatives Vivian (Haddish) and Ray (Barinholtz) recruit Cage for a mission designed to take down Javi, a notorious drug lord, Nick is forced to take on the role of his career: the one and only Nick Cage…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Nicolas Cage takes things to the next level in this meta comedy where the legendary actor plays a fictionalised, and beautifully over-the-top, version of himself.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 22ND APRIL 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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