I'll Do Anything (1994) on Netflix
Matt Hobbs is an unsuccessful actor. He flies to Georgia expecting a short visit with his six-year-old daughter Jeannie, and learns she will live with him instead.
- Netflix3.0/5
- IMDb5.5/103,031 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes61%
Trailer
Plot summary
Matt Hobbs has spent years auditioning without much to show for it, and his latest attempt, for a project from the producer Burke Adler, ends the same way, though he does pick up occasional work driving Adler around. A trip to Georgia to collect his six-year-old daughter Jeannie turns into something longer: Beth, his ex-wife, is facing a prison sentence, and Jeannie will live with him in Hollywood, where he has not seen her since she was four. Jeannie is accustomed to getting her own way, and neither of them is used to the other yet. Matt also meets Cathy Breslow, who reads scripts in Adler's office.
Cast
- Joel Thurmas Martin
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about I'll Do Anything (1994)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director James L. Brooks originally shot I'll Do Anything as a full movie musical, with songs by Carole King, Prince and Sinead O'Connor and choreography by Twyla Tharp, but scrapped every musical number after preview audiences reacted badly to the music.
- A bootleg of Brooks's original musical cut still circulates; podcast Blank Check with Griffin & David watched and reviewed it in 2018, and a 2020 attempt to livestream the cut online was shut down after the Prince estate sent the organizers a cease-and-desist.
- Jackson Browne's 1993 song "I'll Do Anything" was originally written as the film's title song, meant to be sung comedically by Albert Brooks's character begging a test audience to give his movie a good review.
- Composer Hans Zimmer said in 2013 that releasing the musical version of the film is unlikely because the rights deals for the cut songs are too complicated and expensive to untangle.
