Ivans xtc ( Ivansxtc )

Ivans xtc (DVD) (*)

$20.99

Original Title: Ivansxtc
Screened, competed or awarded at:
British Independent Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
94 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Bernard Rose

Written By:
Leo Tolstoy
Bernard Rose

Actors:
Danny Huston ..... Ivan Beckman
Peter Weller ..... Don West
James Merendino ..... Danny McTeague
Adam Krentzman ..... Barry Oaks
Lisa Enos ..... Charlotte White
Alison Taylor ..... Nurse Jackie
Joanne Duckman ..... Marcia Beckman
Robert Graham ..... Sid Beckman
Caroleen Feeney ..... Rosemary Kramer
Sarah Danielle Madison ..... Naomi (as Sarah Goldberg)
Morgan Vukovic ..... Lucy Lawrence
Jay Lavender ..... Phil
Carol Rose ..... Judy Tarzana
Steve Dickman ..... Melvin
Wendy Rhoads ..... Missy

Synopsis:

Ivan Beckman, Hollywood's most sought after talent agent, the darling and crown prince of La-La Land is dead. How and why did it happen? Was it drugs, murder or excess, or perhaps something altogether more mundane? We begin with an ending and then catapult back a number of days to the apex of Ivan's brilliant career as he bags international megastar Don West onto his company's books, and then charts the highs, lows (and they are so very low) and extreme excesses of his final days.

Bernard Rose directed this look at the sordid underside of the film business and one man's attempts to come to terms with his mortality in this fallen world, in a story loosely based on Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Ivan Beckman (Danny Huston), a hot-shot talent agent at the powerful Media Talent Agency, unexpectedly dies, and soon his colleagues are scrambling among themselves over the shards of Ivan's leftover business, with Barry Oaks (Adam Krentzman) eager to take over representation of Don West (Peter Weller), a major star Ivan signed shortly before his death. Everyone assumes that Ivan died of a drug overdose, but as viewers watch his last few days in flashback, they learn that Ivan was diagnosed with a severe case of lung cancer as he was trying to put together a deal with firebrand director Danny McTeague (James Merendino), actress Constanza Vero (Valeria Golino), and West. As the dynamic businessman is forced to confront his mortality, he is dragged into a binge of booze, drugs, and women with West, while he also tries to decide how to confront his family and his girlfriend Charlotte (Lisa Enos) with the grim news about his health. Ivansxtc. (To Live and Die in Hollywood) was shot using digital video equipment and a skeleton crew -- according to Rose, a reaction in part to studio interference over his 1997 adaptation of another Tolstoy work, Anna Karenina.

Drama. At the Media Talent Agency, a meeting of executives is informed that a high-flying colleague, Ivan Beckman, has just passed away, after having signed superstar Don West to the agency. The narrative flashes back to Ivan's last days, and his involvement with West and a young director, Danny McTeague. Ivan's colleagues are of the opinion that his death was drug-induced, but it becomes evident that he had in fact just been diagnosed with lung cancer, and had decided to 'celebrate' the fact by indulging in an orgy of sex and drugs.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 31 March, 2009.

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