The Users (TV film)

The Users is a 1978 television film directed by Joseph Hardy. The film, whose executive producer was Aaron Spelling, is based on a Joyce Haber novel released in the same year. The film focuses on the insiders of the Hollywood film industry.

In Hollywood, she is immediately welcomed by all the insiders, including Randys celebrity daughter Marina Phillips and wealthy socialite Grace St. George Fontaine. Elena and Marina become close friends and Marina tells her about her disastrous love life, which exists mainly out of movie producers, who use her for their own gain. The only man she trusts is a man married to a powerful woman. Elena later learns from her masseur Harvey Parkes Baseleon that the married man is Adam, whose intimidating wife Nancy Nye is aware of the affair.It soon becomes clear to Elena that everyone in Hollywood is using each other for their own career. She spontaneously marries Randy in Las Vegas, Nevada and turns to Grace for help to become a Hollywood insider as well, visiting the right parties and wearing the right clothes. Meanwhile, Randys film is nearing its release. Marty Lesky Feinstein is determined on releasing it as a madeforTV movie, claiming it is too bad for a theatrical release. Elena and Marina try to prevent Randy from fading from the screen again and try to get him his next movie role before the film comes out. ........

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