A film buff meets his Hollywood idol and wins his dream job working for her in “Sallywood,” a lighthearted indie lampoon of show business, showbiz “types” and the indignities of “I used to be famous.”

Sally Kirkland got her start in show business in the early ’60s and finally “arrived” when she won a Golden Globe and earned an Oscar nomination for the dramedy “Anna” in 1987.

Writer-director Xaque Gruber’s semi-autobiographical comedy shows a young man from Maine (Tyler Steelman) who grew up obsessed with that film about a fading Czech actress struggling in New York, who travels to Hollywood to take his shot at being a screenwriter, and who stumbles into his idol the first day there.

It’s the sort of Hollywood cartoon where she asks Zack “Are you my new assistant?” And so he becomes just that.

Working for the 80something Kirkland means guarding the unlocked gallery where she’s showing her abstract paintings (even though no one would steal them), helping her get to auditions for McDonald’s commercials, getting her into Hollywood parties and finding her string cheese on demand.

Gruber, who’s written for TV specials and kicked around at different on-set jobs, makes his film a “My Date with Drew (Barrymore)” mockumentary, with writer Zack setting up each scene with screenplay scene headings — “INT. strip club at night,” etc. and narrating to the camera or in voice over.

“If the Dalai Lama drive the 405 every day, his message to the world would be entirely different!”

Zack’s function in Gruber’s deadpan, cringey and cutesy comedy is to be Ms. “I used to be famous. I’m not famous any more’s” audience.

Kirkland, playing a cartoonish version of herself that she trotted out on talk shows back in the day, is flirty, spacey, hippy dippy and prone to oversharing.

About her “men,” for instance — “Bob Dylan, Kris Kristoffersen, Dennis Hopper, Maximillian Schell, Robert Shaw, Kier Dullea, Ray Liotta, Jon Voight…”

“I had my first ORGASM with RIP TORN!”

Zack’s first task, a “test,” is writing her obituary, the more flowery and flattering the better. But he’s most useful when his hunky Brit filmmaker/roommate Tom (Tom Connolly) cooks up “Outer Space Zombie Chicks in Prison,” with a starring role for Sally.

“If you take a film that’s a piece of crap, but you put a star in it, then you’ve got something” should be taught in film schools. Sally will don a spacesuit and alarming wig as a sight gag.

Jennifer Tilley plays Zack’s doting mom. Eric Roberts is Sally’s smarmy, lazy and self-serving agent. Keith Carradine a famous director who used to love Sally, Kay Lenz is his famous-director ex, the Kathryn Bigelow to his James Cameron. The late Michael Lerner plays a TV producer and Maria Conchita Alonso is a “scammer” and literary agent.

“Sallywood” is the epitome of the genre known as “the film festival comedy,” an indie film aimed at film buffs, that rewards cinephiles who recognize actors much of the world has forgotten and makes wry but unoriginal and obvious observations about “this town” and that “business.” It’s played in a lot of film festivals and won awards in a few.

But watching it, you can’t help but think it could have been more consequential — a lot sharper, sillier and sadder.

Steelman’s “Young Jiminy Glick” choice of voices for his performance, Kirkland’s deadpan dizziness and a sea of Hollywood types — producers, agents, hustlers and porn performers — with their edges rubbed off all work against an Inside Hollywood comedy that might have been.

Sally gives acting lessons to strippers and pole dancers in the film. Perhaps it’s too obvious, but having one of them “discovered” while Sally struggles on would have been a bittersweet and funny homage to her biggest role, “Anna.”

Probably one in three Hollywood “assistants” have funnier anecdotes/stories to tell than this. There’ve been funnier movies about downmarket (indie) cinema and faded stars. You don’t have to aim for “Sunset Boulevard,” but “The Big Picture,” “Swimming with Sharks” and “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool” all covered similar ground on tiny budgets.

Kirkland gets to fume at all the times people who meet her think she was in the movie “M*A*S*H”–“That was Sally KELLERMAN!” — and trot out her Hollywood “underdog” persona one more time, so that’s something.

But whatever audience awards this pic has claimed on the film festival circuit, there’s no weight to it, and the sentimental lighter touches and limp jokes aren’t enough to carry it.

Rating: unrated, sexual innuendo

Cast: Sally Kirkland, Tyler Steelman, Jennifer Tilley, Tom Connolly, Keith Carradine, Eric Roberts, Nikki Tuazon, Michael Lerner, Kay Lenz, Vanessa Dubasso and Maria Conchita Alonso

Credits: Scripted and directed by Xaque Gruber. A Sneak Previews release.

Running time: 1:29