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Swimming with Sharks (1994) is a darkly comic Hollywood satire you can watch online on iFILM. Writer-director George Huang drew on his own years as a studio assistant to build the character of Buddy Ackerman — and it shows in every detail.
Guy lands a job as assistant to Buddy, a powerful studio executive played by Kevin Spacey at his most gleefully vicious. Buddy humiliates Guy in front of colleagues, steals his ideas, and runs him ragged on personal errands. Frank Whaley plays the accumulating damage quietly, until it isn't quiet anymore. The film cuts between Guy's escalating revenge in the present and the long months of abuse that produced it — a structure that keeps the tension tighter than a straight chronology ever could. Benicio del Toro appears in an early role, and Michelle Forbes gives the movie its most morally slippery character.
A sharp, mean-spirited ninety-three minutes that hasn't lost any of its edge. Watch Swimming with Sharks (1994) online on iFILM.
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