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The film follows two struggling actors, Joe (Creator/MatthewModine) and Bob (Maxwell Caulfield), and the trials they face in their careers and love lives. Joe's career is floundering, but he's in a committed relationship with a makeup artist, Mary (Creator/CatherineKeener). Meanwhile, Bob swallows his pride to take a lucrative soap opera role while sleeping his way through the city in his search for a "real blonde."

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The film follows two struggling actors, Joe (Creator/MatthewModine) and Bob (Maxwell Caulfield), (Creator/MaxwellCaulfield), and the trials they face in their careers and love lives. Joe's career is floundering, but he's in a committed relationship with a makeup artist, Mary (Creator/CatherineKeener). Meanwhile, Bob swallows his pride to take a lucrative soap opera role while sleeping his way through the city in his search for a "real blonde."
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Bob cannot perform after seducing a coveted "real blonde". After she humiliates him, and he gets his revenge, he goes back to a fake blonde.

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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Bob cannot perform after seducing a coveted "real blonde". After she humiliates him, and he gets his revenge, he goes back to a fake blonde.blonde.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Bob wants to be a Shakespearean actor but takes a role on a soap opera, a genre he hates, because it pays a lot of money.
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The film follows two struggling actors: Joe (Creator/MatthewModine) and Bob (Maxwell Caulfield) and the trials they face in their careers and love lives. Joe's career is floundering but he's in a committed relationship with a makeup artist, Mary (Creator/CatherineKeener). Meanwhile, Bob swallows his pride to take a lucrative soap opera role while sleeping his way through the city in his search for a "real blonde."

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The film follows two struggling actors: actors, Joe (Creator/MatthewModine) and Bob (Maxwell Caulfield) Caulfield), and the trials they face in their careers and love lives. Joe's career is floundering floundering, but he's in a committed relationship with a makeup artist, Mary (Creator/CatherineKeener). Meanwhile, Bob swallows his pride to take a lucrative soap opera role while sleeping his way through the city in his search for a "real blonde."
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The film follows two struggling actors: Joe (Creator/MatthewModine) and Bob (Creator/MaxwellCaulfield) and the trials they face in their careers and love lives. Joe's career is floundering but he's in a committed relationship with a makeup artist, Mary (Creator/CatherineKeener). Meanwhile, Bob swallows his pride to take a lucrative soap opera role while sleeping his way through the city in his search for a "real blonde."

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The film follows two struggling actors: Joe (Creator/MatthewModine) and Bob (Creator/MaxwellCaulfield) (Maxwell Caulfield) and the trials they face in their careers and love lives. Joe's career is floundering but he's in a committed relationship with a makeup artist, Mary (Creator/CatherineKeener). Meanwhile, Bob swallows his pride to take a lucrative soap opera role while sleeping his way through the city in his search for a "real blonde."

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A 1997 satire written and directed by Creator/TomDiCillo that has a couple (Creator/MatthewModine and Creator/CatherineKeener) living together while Joe tries to make it in New York.

It also stars Creator/DarylHannah, Creator/MaxwellCaulfield, Creator/ElizabethBerkley, Creator/MarloThomas, Creator/BridgetteWilson, Creator/BuckHenry, Creator/ChristopherLloyd, and Creator/KathleenTurner.

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A 1997 satire dramedy written and directed by Creator/TomDiCillo that has Creator/TomDiCillo. It is largely a couple (Creator/MatthewModine satire of the New York arts scene.

The film follows two struggling actors: Joe (Creator/MatthewModine)
and Creator/CatherineKeener) living together Bob (Creator/MaxwellCaulfield) and the trials they face in their careers and love lives. Joe's career is floundering but he's in a committed relationship with a makeup artist, Mary (Creator/CatherineKeener). Meanwhile, Bob swallows his pride to take a lucrative soap opera role while Joe tries to make it sleeping his way through the city in New York.

his search for a "real blonde."

It also stars Creator/DarylHannah, Creator/MaxwellCaulfield, Creator/ElizabethBerkley, Creator/MarloThomas, Creator/BridgetteWilson, Creator/BuckHenry, Creator/ChristopherLloyd, and Creator/KathleenTurner.



* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Bob cannot perform after seducing a coveted "real blonde". After she humilates him, and he gets his revenge, he goes back to a fake blonde.

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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Bob cannot perform after seducing a coveted "real blonde". After she humilates humiliates him, and he gets his revenge, he goes back to a fake blonde.
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* CastingGag: Maxwell Caulfield plays an actor who is embarrassed to be appearing on a soap opera. Caulfield was himself was a former soap opera actor.
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Bob cannot perform after seducing a coveted "real blonde". After she humilates him, and he gets his revenge, he goes back to a fake blonde.
* WagTheDirector: Bob refuses to re-sign his contract unless the producers kill off his co-star's, Kelly, character because she humiliated him for his failure to perform.

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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Bob cannot perform after seducing a coveted "real blonde". After she humilates him, and he gets his revenge, he goes back to a fake blonde.
* WagTheDirector: Bob refuses to re-sign his contract unless the producers kill off his co-star's, Kelly, character because she humiliated him for his failure to perform.
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* EveryoneLovesBlondes: The film takes its title from Bob's obsession over natural blondes. He dumps Sahara after discovering that her hair is dyed before finding a real blonde in Kelly.
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A 1997 satire written and directed by Creator/TomDiCillo that has a couple (Creator/MatthewModine and Creator/Catherine) living together while Joe tries to make it in New York.

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A 1997 satire written and directed by Creator/TomDiCillo that has a couple (Creator/MatthewModine and Creator/Catherine) Creator/CatherineKeener) living together while Joe tries to make it in New York.
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A 1997 satire written and directed by Creator/TomDiCillo that has a couple (Creator/MatthewModine and Creator/Catherine) living together while Joe tries to make it in New York.

It also stars Creator/DarylHannah, Creator/MaxwellCaulfield, Creator/ElizabethBerkley, Creator/MarloThomas, Creator/BridgetteWilson, Creator/BuckHenry, Creator/ChristopherLloyd, and Creator/KathleenTurner.

The movie was released on September 14, 1997.

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!Tropes for the film:
* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: Bob lands a lucrative job on a soap opera. Despite the fame and wealth, he hates the role and recites Shakespeare in his dressing room.
* HorribleHollywood: The movie satirizes the shallowness and dysfunction of the New York fashion and cinema scene.
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Bob cannot perform after seducing a coveted "real blonde". After she humilates him, and he gets his revenge, he goes back to a fake blonde.
* WagTheDirector: Bob refuses to re-sign his contract unless the producers kill off his co-star's, Kelly, character because she humiliated him for his failure to perform.

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