‘Mountainhead’ a darkly comic fireside chat about the apocalypse
This image released by Max shows, from left, Ramy Youssef, Cory Michael Smith, Steve Carell and Jason Schwartzman in a scene from "Mountainhead."
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This image released by Max shows Cory Michael Smith, left, and Steve Carrell in a scene from "Mountainhead."
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This image released by Max shows Jason Schwartzman in a scene from "Mountainhead."
Max via AP
If the world’s most influential billionaires had the fate of humanity in their hands, let’s hope they do a better job than the fictional ones depicted in “Mountainhead,” the HBO Max film from “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong.
Taking inspiration from the Elons and Jeffs and Marks of the world, “Mountainhead” follows a quartet of billionaire friends/rivals on a secluded weekend ski retreat. Steve Carell plays the veteran big money player of the group, Corey Michael Smith (a highlight as Chevy Chase in last year’s “Saturday Night”) made his billions on a social media site with a major misinformation problem and now wants to strongarm Ramy Youssef (“Poor Things”) into selling off his advanced fact-checking technology, and Jason Schwartzman is “Souper,” an insecure tagalong who can’t quite break into the Billionaire Club.
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