Outcome

Matt Roush says...

Keanu Reeves sets a tone of dazed melancholy as a beloved movie star in existential crisis in director/co-writer/costar Jonah Hill‘s offbeat and uneven cautionary dramedy about the price of fame. Reeves is Hawk Reef, a former child star and two-time Oscar winner (as he likes to be introduced) with three popular film franchises among his credits. Emerging from a five-year hiatus during which he kicked a drug habit that he kept secret from his adoring public, Hawk is rocked when an anonymous blackmailer threatens to destroy his reputation with a mysterious video. Cameron Diaz and Matt Bomer costar as Hawk’s supportive best friends from high school, and Hill goes over the top as his belligerent crisis-management lawyer. With no clue what dark chapter of his life the video might reveal, Hawk goes on an apology tour, making amends to the important people in his life, including Susan Lucci as his foul-mouthed Real Housewives mother and, most memorably, directing legend Martin Scorsese as the wistful manager who discovered Hawk as a kid: “I’m the guy you leave if I do my job right.”

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