Claire Makes It Big

Release Date: 1999-04-27

Overview: Claire Makes It Big, Jeremy Workman's award- winning short comedy, follows the travails of a talented overweight actress and her difficulties landing a decent movie role. A sharply written and briskly directed satire of the acting and filmmaking professions that then turns into a hilarious wish-fulfillment fantasy, it also features a lovely lead performance by Mara Hobel (whom Joan Crawford-heads may recognize as the child Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest) and funny supporting turns from more recognizable folks like Clancy Brown, Paige Turco and Peter Bogdanovich, along with a voice cameo from the late Don LaFontaine.

Rating: 0 / 10

Cast

Mara Hobel

as Claire Beaumont

Clancy Brown

as Frank

Stuart Fratkin

as Harry the Agent

Paige Turco

as Brownyn

James DiSalvatore

as Headshot Photographer (as Jim DiSalvatore)