Fool's Paradise

Fool's Paradise is a satire of the Hollywood star system. A struggling publicist named Lenny stumbles on a man who has just left a psychiatric hospital and happens to look exactly like a difficult movie star who is refusing to leave his trailer. With backing from a powerful producer, Lenny passes the stranger off as the actor, and the man becomes a celebrity in his own right. Success soon proves harder to manage than it was to create, and the people around him chase fame, money and control while he is pushed further into a world he barely understands.

Charlie Day directed the film and wrote the screenplay, with Andrew Levitas, John Rickard and Christopher Lemole producing. Day also plays the central role of Latte Pronto, alongside Ken Jeong as Lenny, Kate Beckinsale, Adrien Brody, Jason Sudeikis, Ray Liotta and John Malkovich among a credited cast of 70. It was made for about 3 million dollars. The film is a comedy set in Los Angeles, and it arrived well after Day became widely known as a performer.

On IMDb it holds a rating of 4.7 from roughly 7,600 votes, and on TMDB it also has a 4.7, from a much smaller base of 113 ratings. A critics' score of 4.4 from 46 reviews places professional opinion close to the audience response.