Rating: PG
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 11/18/2003
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1/DD5.1
Run Time: 123 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
Elia Kazan directed this curiously constipated film adaptation of
F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel, about Monroe Starr, a brilliant and efficient studio executive (based upon
Fitzgerald's experiences with
MGM wunderkind
Irving Thalberg).
Robert De Niro plays Monroe Starr in a cool and detached manner, and as
Kazan pans around the Hollywood Dream Factory of the 1930s, Starr juggles several productions, deals with nervous actors and recalcitrant directors, stays afloat in the Hollywood corporate battlefields, and secretly carries on a love affair with an even cooler and more detached English girl, Kathleen Moore (
Ingrid Boulting).
~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
;)
