Les Grossman 2

Title: Les Grossman: Casting Couch
Genre: Black Comedy / Satirical Revenge
Starring: Tom Cruise as Les Grossman, Florence Pugh as Jenny Lawless
Written by: Diablo Cody & Adam McKay
Directed by: Ben Stiller
Runtime: 117 min

Tagline:
In Hollywood, the only thing more dangerous than power… is losing it.

Logline:
Les Grossman is back — bloated, belligerent, and bankrupt. When he tries to reboot his career with a dystopian YA knockoff called The Wonder Games, he crosses paths with Jenny Lawless, a seemingly naïve young actress with a plan. What Les doesn’t know: Jenny’s not here to get famous — she’s here to take the whole corrupt system down, one greasy executive at a time.

ACT I: “Welcome to the Jungle”
Les Grossman has been "canceled" half a dozen times, but like a cockroach with a publicist, he keeps surviving. Desperate for a comeback, he greenlights a low-rent sci-fi franchise ripoff called The Wonder Games, complete with gladiators, talking cats, and crypto-based ticketing.

During auditions, Jenny Lawless — sweet, doe-eyed, seemingly desperate — stumbles in and nails the lead role. Les immediately reverts to his old ways, testing her with twisted “loyalty trials” and fake casting rituals. His assistant warns him: “You cannot do the casting couch thing anymore, Les.”
Les: “It’s not a couch. It’s a power futon.”

ACT II: “The Reaping”
Jenny appears to go along with the sleaze — flattering Les, playing dumb, even enduring a horrifying dinner at Nobu with a washed-up actor who thinks he’s method. But behind the scenes, she’s recording everything. Jenny is actually a whistleblower with a hidden camera crew and a secret deal with a streaming exposé docuseries called Cancelled: The Final Season.

Les continues to implode, harassing staff, yelling about pronouns, and greenlighting NFT-based merchandise that catches fire in a warehouse. He’s too egomaniacal to realize the trap being set — until Jenny tricks him into confessing on a live Zoom call that he "once tried to get Meryl Streep to do pole work in Fiji for an Oscar."

ACT III: “Burn It All”
The internet erupts. Les becomes a meme, a cautionary tale, and a pitch for a Netflix true-crime doc all at once. But instead of hiding, he doubles down. He rebrands himself as a “redemption guru,” launching a masterclass called “Grossman’s Guide to Consent.”

Jenny, meanwhile, flips the film into a meta movie about abuse in Hollywood — with herself as the lead, Les as the villain (played by Steve Buscemi), and the proceeds going to victims of exploitation.

Final Scene:
Les, now under house arrest, watches the Oscars from his couch. The Wonder Games: Reclaimed wins everything. Jenny thanks "all the women who survived clowns like Les."

Les grins.

“You think that’s the end? I’ve got a script about a woke robot who runs a brothel on Mars. Tarantino’s already attached.”

Post-Credits Scene:
Les gets a call from Harvey Weinstein in prison.
Les: “Lose my number, you sick f***.”