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you won’t believe me at the beginning but by the end you’ll be picturing her acceptance speech. She plays a vaudeville actress who dreams of bigger things, mostly of getting into a real show like the one written by Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody). When her dreams fall into the poverty around her, she is given the choice of becoming a burlesque dancer or starving.
Like any good heroine, she realizes this isn’t for her and runs away from the front steps of the girlie show without ever stepping foot inside. BUT not before she catches the eye of a mad filmmaker played surprisingly well by Jack Black.
His character is looking for a leading lady with one amazing talent, the ability to fit into the size four costumes of the actress who just quit his movie….
After buying the starving girl dinner he convinces her to join his film even though she doesn’t know what he has in store for any of them. It seems he has discovered a map to a mysterious island where, unbeknownst to many of the people in his movie, he intends to shoot on location.
Now let me pause for a moment to say that
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