Hacks (a.k.a. Sink or Swim and The Big Twist) is a 1997 American comedy film written and directed by Gary Rosen.^[1] The film premiered at the AFI Los Angeles Film Festival.^[2]

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Brian is a television writer-producer who is working on creating a 22-episode show, but has writer's block and needs inspiration. He teams up with a group of writer friends to write about a sexual encounter he watches on a balcony.

He witnesses a strange romantic encounter between two figures on the balcony of a hotel near his flat and decides to write scripts with his writer friends based on what he saw.

• Stephen Rea as Brian
• Illeana Douglas as Georgia Feckler
• John Ritter as Hank
• Dave Foley as Neil
• Richard Kind as Benny
• Dusty Kay as Ira Gold
• Tom Arnold as Danny
• Robert Patrick as Goatee
• Ryan O'Neal as Dr. Applefield
• Jason Priestley as The Dude
• Olivia d'Abo as Lynn
• Lisa Kudrow as Reading
• Bob Odenkirk as Cell

Leonard Klady of Variety magazine called it "a flip, intermittently amusing satire" and praised the cast but wrote: "the picture has little to offer in the way of insight or reflection and therefore won't translate outside of a small, insider crowd."^[3]