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Swimming with Sharks

1994 · 93 min

Comedy, Crime

Guy is a young film executive who's willing to do whatever it takes to make it in Hollywood. He begins working for famed producer Buddy Ackerman, a domineering, manipulative, coldhearted boss. When Guy also finds out that his cynical girlfriend, Dawn, has been using sex as a career move, he reaches his limit. Guy decides to exact revenge on Buddy by kidnapping him and subjecting him to cruel and unusual punishment.

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Appeals to viewers who enjoy caustic workplace power struggles, vicious satire, and revenge fantasies that expose the cruelty beneath professional success.

Tone
darkly comic, satirical, bleak
Payoff
catharsis, vindication
Pacing
steady
Intensity
intense
Structure
linear
Themes
ambition, workplace abuse, exploitation, revenge, moral corruption
Setting
contemporary, ruthless entertainment-industry offices and upscale urban homes

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