‘I’ll Do Anything’

James L. Brook’s 1994 film is a warm tribute to the acting profession. It’s also a two-couple romantic comedy, a study of a prickly father-daughter relationship and a gleeful skewering of modern Hollywood. Although it includes many laugh-out-loud moments and fine and lively performances by Julie Kavner and Albert Brooks, the film falls short of holding together. Nick Nolte (pictured left, with Whittni Wright) plays an out-of-work actor whose ex-wife has compelling reasons why their remarkably bratty 6-year-old, Wright, should spend an indefinite period of time with her father (HBO Monday at 7 a.m.).