O Julgamento Do Diabo
In Manhattan, ambitious writer Jabez Stone (Producer and Director Alec Baldwin) is a complete loser. He is not able to sell his novels, he lives in an awful apartment and he does not have success with women.
When one of his friends, Julius Jensen (Dan Aykroyd), sells his novel for one hundred ninety thousand dollars to an editor, Jabez feels envious and promises to sell his soul to the devil for success and accidentally kills a woman with his typing machine. The Devil (Jennifer Love Hewitt) knocks on his door, fixes the situation, and seals a contract with Jabez. His low quality novels have bad reviews but become best-sellers; Jabez enriches; has success with women, but has no time for his friends. Jabez meets with publisher Daniel Webster (Sir Anthony Hopkins) who offers him a chance to break the contract with the devil. One of the reviews says there were three versions of the film. I'd like to see Baldwin's original cut of this movie.
The last version was cut badly, there are many unnatural breaks in the film. Like it was edited for commercial breaks.
The breaks where scenes were cut seem apparent. Apparently the 1941 movie suffered a similar fate, with many titles and severe editing. The story runs counter to the traditional American ethic of money equaling happiness.
Shortcut To Happiness Trailer
The film was purchased out of bankruptcy for a fraction of production costs, and renamed and hacked for a fast return on investment.