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Who’s the Caboose?

Director in Person
Screening on Film
Directed by Sam Seder .
With Sam Seder, Sara Silverman, Jon Benjamin.
US, 1997, 35mm, color, 95 min.

This delightfully scathing send-up of L.A.'s comedy biz stars Sara Silverman as Susan, a twenty-something New Yorker goes out west for "pilot season," when a multitude of aspiring actors vie for scant employment opportunities in network sit-coms. A documentary crew "from NYU Film School" abandons a thesis project about homelessness to follow her. Much to Susan's delight, the crew has little respect for her privacy, which gives her instant cachet in Hollywood and adds drama to her blundering relationship with her boyfriend Max, who also follows her to L.A. (though he is not invited). The road to network fame is a hilarious parade of stressed-out personal assistants, shady agents, ruthless casting agents and turncoat friends.

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