Swimming with Sharks
“In Hollywood his dreams could come true. But first he has to make coffee.”
Guy is a young film executive who's willing to do whatever it takes to make it in Hollywood. He begins working for famed producer Buddy Ackerman, a domineering, manipulative, coldhearted boss. When Guy also finds out that his cynical girlfriend, Dawn, has been using sex as a career move, he reaches his limit. Guy decides to exact revenge on Buddy by kidnapping him and subjecting him to cruel and unusual punishment.
Genres
Crime, Comedy
Studio
Trimark Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Swimming with Sharks performed
Budget
$700,000
Worldwide Gross
$382,928
Gross Profit
−$317,072
Return
0.5× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$64K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Crime) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Cast
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