6.5 Popcorn boxes At its core, Pipe Dream has a funny premise; a plumber who has no luck with attractive, successful women because he's 'invisible', decides to fake being a film director so he can have attractive actresses audition for a movie that doesn't exist.
Martin Donovan plays David Kulovic (and David Coppolberg, his nom de plume as the director), a plumber who just can't meet or hang on to the kind of women he's attracted to. So he convinces a friend who's in the movie business to set up a fake casting call, seeking a young, attractive woman. He needs a script for the women to audition with, so he purloins a script that one of his female friends has written (Toni Edelman, played with flair by Mary-Louise Parker). Suddenly, there is 'buzz' about the film, and women are clamoring to get into the non-existent movie, and financiers are offering to underwrite it for millions of dollars. He now needs a completed script;, so Toni agrees to have him film her unsold script.
As I've said, it's a funny premise, and the film does launches some barbs that hit home convincingly about the film business. My problem with the film is Donovan, who plays the lead so laconically that there's little spark and humor. If he possessed a bit more (or a lot more) joie de vivre, the film would have gone down better. He performance just doesn't have the energy needed to make this a fun romp.
I'm giving it a positive rating, though, primarily on the dead-on skewering of the often pompous nature of the film-making business.
Rated R for simulated sex
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