The Deal

Product Description

Comedy written by & starring William H. Macy. Charlie Berns (Macy) is a one-hit wonder Hollywood producer with no money & no prospects
- that is, until his budding writer nephew Lionel (Jason Ritter) comes along bearing a sizzling script based on the life of Benjamin Disraeli, & Charlie decides to use it to give his flagging career one final shot. Standing in his way is Diedre Hern (Meg Ryan), a sharp studio executive brought in to keep Charlie in line. But when their A-list action star (LL Cool J), a recent convert to Judaism, gets kidnapped & the studio threatens to pull the plug on their project, Charlie & Diedre reluctantly join forces to pull off one of the biggest scams in Hollywood history.