The Real Blonde (1997) on Netflix
Joe buses tables in Manhattan while chasing acting roles he deems worthy. Mary, his girlfriend, works in fashion as a cosmetician and supports them. Bob, a co-worker, lands a soap opera part.
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- Rotten Tomatoes34%
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Plot summary
Joe, an actor with strict standards about the roles he will accept, buses at a high-class restaurant and lives off the earnings of his girlfriend Mary, a cosmetician in the fashion trade who urges him to take any part at all to get a start. Bob, their co-worker, trained in the classics but willing to trade quality for money, lands a role on a soap opera and dates Sahara, a naive model he chooses for her natural blonde hair. Joe sets aside his pride to meet the agent Dee Dee Taylor, who finds him work as an extra in a Madonna video. Mary, pestered by men on her daily walk to work, signs up for classes in self-defense and anger management that her therapist recommends.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Real Blonde (1997)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Tom DiCillo fought with the producers over a scene he called one of the "most beautifully surreal" he had ever put on film; they cut it, believing it would hurt the film's chances of breaking through to Middle America.
- Isabella Rossellini and Faye Dunaway were both announced for the project in unknown roles, but both pulled out.
- Before The Real Blonde had its poor theatrical run, Lakeshore had already agreed to buy DiCillo's script for Double Whammy. After the film's financial failure, Lakeshore cut the budget in half for that project, and he made it with different independent studios.
- Paramount pulled The Real Blonde from theaters after a week, when it had played to just 45 theaters and grossed $83,048 against its $10 million budget.
- Elizabeth Berkley, who had recently appeared in the NC-17 film Showgirls with fake blonde hair, plays Madonna's stunt double and was filmed with both her natural brown hair and fake blonde hair.
