The story of a sadly struggling actress who becomes increasingly screwed up, making worse and worse decisions to the point that she tries to sabotage those doing better than her. She's cruelly exploited by an acting teacher. At his house, she comes out of the bathroom to find him sitting in the living room in his underwear. She's in the audience of a play she disrupts when it's going too well for the actors.
Trying to be an actor sounds awful. There's another movie called OK, Good about an actor trying to get work in commercials, and a documentary called Camp Hollywood about actors, mostly Canadians, trying to make it in Hollywood.
In Camp Hollywood, we see what actors will put up with for a credit to put on their resume. They work without pay for an obnoxious, possibly coked-up director. For actors who can't manage even to get unpaid gigs like this, there's a book Amazon keeps recommending to me which calls for actors to get a camcorder and make their own zero budget movies.
A book I did buy for someone else (and wrote about here) suggests that actors can earn a pretty good living outside of New York and Hollywood. There's work for them in every large city and there's a lot less competition.
Reading about Allison Mack's arrest for sex trafficking, it turns out that there's a thriving acting community in Vancouver, BC, with actors appearing in Hollywood productions filming in Canada.
Diamond Tongues stars Leah Goldstein. The character she plays comes across as kind of a pleasant airhead. She has blond hair with dark roots. Makes her sad descent into loathsomeness more interesting.
Available on Fandor.
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