Finishing The Game

Comedy
USA  /  English

In 1973 a low-budget production company owns twelve minutes of footage of the late Bruce Lee and his ill-fated film “Game of Death.” With a puerile director (Jake Sandvig) and his casting brassy director Eloise Gazdag (Meredith Scott Lee) in charge, they proceed to test for a replacement for Bruce Lee and finish the movie in “Finishing the Game.” They have a cattle call and cold reading, attempting to cut down on the dozens of hapless imitators who want the role. Their ultimate standard is the desire of the director to have sexual relations with his actor. Breeze Loo (Roger Fan) is the front-runner and close look-alike, but so is Troy Poon (Dustin Nguyen), a TV sidekick to Dean Silo (James Franco) costar on a bad television detective show. The finalists must fight it out literally in one audition, and their screen tests will round out the selection. Sly and satirical with a slightly skewered 1970s look, the so-called documentary comedy ends with the studio head and father of the director (Sam Bottoms) cutting to the core of exploitation with his decision.