{"product_id":"too-real-a-hollywood-memoir-9798991174701","title":"Too Real: A Hollywood Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe true story behind America's most infamous independent film and one movie star's obsession with destroying it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe decades-long dispute between indie film producer, Dale Wheatley, and two of Hollywood's biggest stars comes to a head in this raw, revealing, and often hilarious memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in 1990s Los Angeles, during a golden age of American independent film, Too Real: A Hollywood Memoir follows Dale as he emigrates from Canada to California in search of Hollywood glory. Within months, Dale is accepted into a close group of friends that includes some of Hollywood's hottest up-and-coming actors, and they quickly begin collaborating on a low-budget improvisational film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir experiment succeeds and the film garners interest from major film distributors, but one of the film's stars decides the performances were too real for his aspirations, and he begins a clandestine campaign that will eventually destroy life-long friendships and careers and ban an American film forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlacklisted and broken, Dale finds himself on a new path in life, to end the suppression of his work and reclaim his stolen dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ninth House Publishing LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50893404930322,"sku":"9798991174701","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_66f9f8c2-b214-487e-8ed4-430daa8e0947.jpg?v=1738232681","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/too-real-a-hollywood-memoir-9798991174701","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}