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The Disaster Artist

Cast

James Franco, Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Seth Rogen View All

Crew

James Franco (Director), Scott Neustadter (Screenplay), Michael H. Weber (Screenplay) View All

Release: Mar. 12th, 2017

Runtime: 1 hour, 43 minutes

An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.

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61 The Disaster Artist

Is anyone else oddly looking forward to this? It's based on the book by Greg Sestero about the making of The Room and the oddball friendship between Sestero and Tommy Wiseau. James Franco is playing W...

12 'The Disaster Artist' effect on paracinematic status of 'The Room'?

Hey guys, just wondering what opinions are on to what extent, if any Jame's Franco's 'The Disaster Artist' re-telling of Tommy Wiseau's classic badfilm 'The Room' challenges the paracinematic status t...

34 Question about The Disaster Artist and the making of The Room (2003)

So I watched The Disaster Arist, and having never seen The Room before, I decided to watch some clips to get an idea of what it was. I was very curious as to why Tommy Wiseau looks like he did ADR ...

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Gideon58
The film opens in late 1990's San Francisco where we meet Tommy in an acting class where he frightens most of the class with his interpretation of Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire, but catches the eye of a pretty but mediocre young actor named Greg (Dave Franco) who asks Tommy to do a scene with ....

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Watch_Tower
When James Franco decided to make a movie about the most famous bad movie of them all, I expected something subversive, funny yet subtle, delving into the mind of Tommy Wiseau (the mind behind The Room), sadly The Disaster Artist is none of those things.