Dennis Quaid is gloriously over the top as the TV executive called Harvey. He is almost a cartoon character, dripping with insincerity and crudeness. The shrimp eating scene alone is both sickening and funny.
shareLove it when Dennis Quaid is over the top! He gives an over-the-top performance as Jerry Lee Lewis in Great Balls of Fire.
shareAnd he REALLY ate all those shrimp, the director/writer says. Originally, the role was supposed to be for Ray Liotta.
shareI can't see Ray in the role. He would give a more subtle performance which would NOT work in this satire.
shareAnd I wondered why Ray Liotta is "thanked" at the end of the end credits!
shareHe was fantastic here. That shrimp scene was great.
shareThe fact they called him Harvey is hilarious , definitely a nod to Harvey Weinstein
It would have been so funny if she would have had to bang him to get the position
ABSOLUTELY....THAT WAS A VERSION OF QUAID I HAD NOT SEEN BEFORE...VERY IMPRESSIVE.
shareHe plays a cliché role of greedy cynical white boss. He is excellent at his role but I dislike the movie's obvious white misandry.
shareYou are looking for ghosts... This has nothing to do with race... I bet if you search to see who the top TV CEOs in the US are... most are white... so it does make sense to cast a white male in this role... But as a white male myself I don't think there is any specific white misandry going on...
shareWhy don't they cast a black person in the role of killer when so many negroes become murderers or gangsters? Why does Hollywood cast black characters as wise, or nice and correct or victims?
shareI have seen many movies with African Americans as gangsters, murderers etc., I don't know what movies you watch... but they are plenty of them out there...
Tell some of them. Recent ones. All the recent ones I've seen show negroes as wise or "correct" individuals or strong and admirable. I saw pilot episode of Fallout (2024) and same narrative: black man strong and virtuous or victimized, white men weak or (more commonly) evil.
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