“The Big Take” (*1/2 out of four) was a big dud about a moronic Hollywood actor (James McAffrey) who is suddenly blackmailed by someone he doesn’t know and sends his private investigator (Dan Hedaya) to sort things out but he stumbles onto an equally idiotic aspiring writer/director (Ebon Moss-Bacrach) who thinks that this attention means the actor wants to star in his new movie! The kind of movie that gives the word contrived a bad name. Attempts to mix elements of a Hollywood-insider drama, black comedy, and screwball humor with lackluster results although Hedaya has one of his best roles in years and Robert Forster is good as usual as a a lead cop on the case.