A washed-up theater director tries to get back in the game in the meager comedy “Meeting Spencer.”
As the director, Jeffrey Tambor is heroically game. The script relies heavily on his ability to keep dealing the double-takes as he spends an evening at a steakhouse trying to put together financing for the play. He steers between the egos of his demanding star (William Morgan Sheppard), a money man (Julian Bailey) and a nosy Post theater columnist (Jill Marie Jones) who is considerably more glamorous than any Post theater columnist I’ve ever met.
The title character (Jesse Plemons), a tyro actor who stumbles onto a mildly engaging twist, provides a small quantity of story progression. Otherwise the movie, directed by Malcolm Mowbray, is at best a sporadically amusing sketchbook of theater types.