Everyone has it in for a powerful Hollywood producer/money launderer known only as "The Master", particularly the equally powerful "Senator" (Eric Roberts, THE DEAD WANT WOMEN) who sets off a chain reaction of blackly comic bloody mayhem by sending a silver case to his rival. The delivery is derailed when the case is stolen from the harried courier and changes hands among Hollywood's seedy underbelly including a pair of smugglers (Brian Keith Gamble and Chris Facey) eager to shift the unopened case for money to make up for a lost shipment within forty-eight hours. Seymour Cassel (FACES) has a brief role as an antiques dealer. The feature debut of Italian prize-winning short filmmaker Christian Filippella, SILVER CASE is a rather derivative and contrived riff somewhere in between THE PLAYER and PULP FICTION (with the usual posturing and gunplay). Although handsomely mounted and taking full cinematographic advantage of several gorgeous Hollywood locations (including some little hideaways), the acting (or the direction of the acting) is mostly stiff with only Roberts coming across well in a role he's played several times before (although Gamble and Facey are quite entertaining with what seems like a series of improvised and lengthy exchanges). A subplot in which Margot (Claire Falconer) is hired by "The Senator" to seduce A-list actor Doug Damien (Vincent De Paul) to prevent him from signing on to The Master's latest production slows down the what might have been at least an entertaining time-waster (which would probably make a good double bill with Breaking Glass' DEAD IN FRANCE).