What happens when a screenwriter loses his edge, he turns to anyone he can for help...even if it's the mythical "Zeus's Daughter". And he's willing to pay, albeit reluctantly, whatever price it takes to satisfy this goddess, especially when her advice gets him going again on a sure-fire script. However, this is not the limit of her help, she also gets the writer's wife going on her own bakery enterprise, much to the chagrin of the screenwriter who has already had to make many personal sacrifices for his own help.
Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
More stupefying than entertaining.
– Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
There are bits in this movie that are so bright, so amusing and so truly, madly, deeply tied to a life most of us will never know, that you can't help watching the film with fascination.
– Susan Stark,
Detroit News,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Perversely amusing!
– Eleanor Ringel Gillespie,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
The Muse might have worked better if it didn't presume that we're all as interested in the machinations of Hollywood as Brooks is.