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Sy Lerner is the quintessential movie producer, when he makes a bet that he can take any kid off the street and turn him into a superstar overnight using the universal language of the festival: hype. He meets Frank Rhinoslavsky and turns him into 'Frank Rhino, one of the hottest screenwriters to hit Cannes since Faulkner and Hemingway.'
Cannes Man (1996) - * [Sy Lerner interrupts Johnny Depp and Jim Jarmusch while they are meditating in order to pitch them a film] * Sy Lerner: This is a very spiritual film. This is a film written by a poet, whose father was a poet, one of the great American cowboy poets.
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So, he meets Sy Lerner (Seymor Cassel), perhaps a bigger loser in movie business and as each person interviewed in this mockumentary, he has made a fool out of a lot of industry executives and cost them plenty of money.
Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his skills of hype and manipulation to try and turn the cab driver named Frank into the talk of the town.
Apr 8, 2019 · Seymour Cassel (1935-2019): Prolific Character Actor Was A Witty, Talented Rapscallion. The colorful, mischievous movie and TV star has passed away at 84. To me, he’ll always be Sy Lerner, the cigar chomping producer in “Cannes Man”
Cannes Man is a 1996 independent comedy film directed by Richard Martini, and Susan Hillary Shapiro (scenes in Cannes). The film stars Seymour Cassel and Francesco Quinn.
