A sloppy vanity project, this ram bling and toothless Hollywood black comedy stars veteran filmmaker Henry Jaglom’s girlfriend, Tanna Frederick, as a most-improbable action star spending the holidays at the Beverly Hills estate of her boyfriend’s family after acquiring an electronic ankle bracelet following her latest DUI arrest.
The boyfriend (Christopher Rydell), another action star, is a compulsive gambler who is cheating on our heroine with his ex-wife. Also circling the charisma-free Frederick are the boyfriend’s screenwriter brother (Noah Wyle) and the boyfriend’s producer father (Jack Heller), whose wife is played by Bing Crosby’s widow, Kathryn.
Their real-life daughter, Mary, plays her daughter, who is trying to bully her unemployed director husband (Peter Bogdanovich) into directing a remake of “Trouble in Paradise” for his father-in-law. Any random 30 seconds of that 1932 Ernst Lubitsch masterpiece would be a better use of your time than the entire two hours of the embarrassingly bad “Queen of the Lot.”