The Learning Curve (film)

The Learning Curve (film)

Infobox Film
name = The Learning Curve


image_size =
caption = Theatrical release poster
director = Eric Schwab
producer = Oscar Delgado
writer = Eric Schwab
narrator =
starring = Carmine Giovinazzo
Norbert Weisser
Monet Mazur
Tim Ransom
Rod Roesser
music = Zoran Borisavljevic
cinematography = Michael Hofstein
editing = Adam C. Frank
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = 2001
runtime = 113 min
country = USA
language = English
budget =
gross =
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website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0219126

The Learning Curve is a 2000 film that explores themes of ruthless ambition and its consequences. It stars Monet Mazur and Carmine Giovinazzo as a couple that meet as a result of Giovinazzo's character Paul Cleveland fighting off Georgia's (played by Mazur) attacker.

A strong bond develops between the two and the ambition of Cleveland begins to surface rapidly as he starts to participate in scams with Georgia to raise enough money to leave his job as a hospital orderly behind.

When they try to scam Marshal (played by Vincent Ventresca) by staging a road accident using Georgia as a distracting female hitchhiker it seems that they have struck a very dangerous individual as he produces a gun and kidnaps them.Marshal is head of a record company and controls a very large financial empire and he takes Paul and Georgia to his offices where he eventually makes them an offer and congratulates them for their enterprise.

The ambitious Cleveland then offers his further services to Marshal in a similar way to Bud Fox approaching Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street

The similarities between Gordon Gekko and Marshal are apparent as he begins to reward Cleveland for tasks accomplished. The empty warehouse that he gives them for Georgia and Paul to freely decorate and furnish is a similarity.

Paul soon begins to become obsessed with how much Marshal needs him and begins to neglect Georgia in preference to Marshal's lucrative offers.

Georgia also begins to become disenchanted with their lifestyle and this becomes the theme for the rest of the film as her ethics begin to clash with Marshal's organisation and Paul's trance like obedience to him.


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