Good Advice
- Charlie Sheen: Ryan Edward Turner
- Angie Harmon: Page Hensen
- Denise Richards: Cindy Styne
- Jon Lovitz: Barry Sherman
- Rosanna Arquette: Cathy Sherman
- Estelle Harris: Iris
- Barry Newman: Donald Simpson
- Lisa Rinna: Joanna Thomas
- John de Lancie: Ted ( Ryan's boss) 1
Good Advice - Good advice is expensive is an American comedy film from the year 2001.
Action
The stockbroker Ryan Turner has in addition to the relationship with his girlfriend Cindy Styne, a journalist, nor an affair with the wife of the publisher Donald Simpson. Simpson noted this and enticed Turner in revenge for a business insider. He can burst the promised transaction after Turner has invested money of its customers. Because of the lost funds Turner loses his job. Cindy leaves him for a new lover, whom she follows to Brazil. Turner takes over, initially reluctant, the column Cindy, are answered in the requests of the clients, because in the situation offers him no other source of income. In this role, he has been so successful that the media want to interview Styne.
Negotiated Turner - supposedly in the name of Styne - with the Editorial Director Page Hensen on working conditions. He accompanies her to the idea of a performance artist who fills his anus with paint and sprayed a wall in front of the audience with the color. Turner is shocked when he abkriegt some of the color on your face. When they parted, he is kissed by Hensen.
As a publisher of a competing magazine Donald Simpson made an offer to poach Styne. Turner reveals Hensen deception, which ends with Turner and Hensen end up in bed. You will be surprised by the returning from Brazil Styne. Styne is surprised and says that Turner was not on women with brains, to which he replies that he love Hensen. Hensen do not want Styne returns to her work.
Styne accepts the offer from Simpson. Turner borrows money from friends and buys the shares of the company group Simpsons, the increase in value after the announcement of the change of Styne. Turner sold the shares and additionally sets again on falling prices (short - selling) before it becomes visible that Styne is not the person who brought the column in recent months to success.
Turner writes in the last scene a letter to himself, in which he asks how he should make the love of his life to marry him. Hensen reads the letter and agrees to the marriage.
Reviews
- The lexicon of international film wrote that the film was a " routine entertaining, but ultimately too non-committal comedy for familiar patterns ". He denounce " the superficiality, greed, and the dark side of capitalism " to.
- Stefan Stefansson Birgir wrote: " not really bad, but not really good."
Background
On the set of Charlie Sheen met his future wife Denise Richards know.