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[[The Roaring Twenties|In the 1920s]], idealist playwright David Shayne ([[John Cusack]]) moves to New York City to produce a play. He and his girlfriend Ellen (Mary-Louise Parker) fit in well enough in the show business world and David finds a mentor in Sheldon Flender (Rob Reiner), a bohemian artist who says that artists can get away with things normal people can't [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|because artists live in their own moral universe]].

 

But the biggest problem is with the play itself. It is pretentious and badly written, so much so that Cheech starts making suggestions on how to improve it. David begrudgingly takes Cheech's writing advice and ends up having to decide whether art or life is more important.

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* [[All Part of the Show]]: During the show's opening night on Broadway, {{spoiler|a pair of mobsters shoot and kill Cheech backstage. The audience thinks the gunshots were all part of the show. In fact, the show gets rave reviews because of the "symbolic" gunshots in the ending.}}