Claire Makes It Big

Claire Makes It Big, Jeremy Workman's award- winning short comedy, follows the travails of a talented overweight actress and her difficulties landing a decent movie role. A sharply written and briskly directed satire of the acting and filmmaking professions that then turns into a hilarious wish-fulfillment fantasy, it also features a lovely lead performance by Mara Hobel (whom Joan Crawford-heads may recognize as the child Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest) and funny supporting turns from more recognizable folks like Clancy Brown, Paige Turco and Peter Bogdanovich, along with a voice cameo from the late Don LaFontaine.

• Release date
• April 27, 1999
• Runtime
• 30 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Jeremy Workman

Cast

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Mara Hobel Claire Beaumont Clancy Brown Frank Stuart Fratkin Harry the Agent Paige Turco Brownyn

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James DiSalvatore Headshot Photographer (as Jim DiSalvatore)

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Michelle Lieberman Audition Receptionist

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Jason Hernandez-Rosenblatt Ross

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Charles Mandracchia Jeff Wesker