Billy Barty, Bo Hopkins, Burgess Meredith
Tod Hackett, a new arrival to Los Angeles and aspiring art director, is trying to make it in Hollywood in the late 1930's. He soon finds himself increasingly infatuated with his mysterious neighbor, ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 8, 2004
Stats: 101 reviews
An often surreal but always intriguing morality tale. This film has it's sights set mostly on "Hollywood", with a few "pop shots" at organized religion (which if you think about it is not so different from Hollywood).
Sure the characters are "over the top" and "steretypical",...( read more)
Allegorical film that depicts the moral decay of 1930's Hollywood. Donald Sutherland gave an unusual performance as Homer Simpson. The epic, horrifying climax is the true highlight of the picture, one of the best sequences of cinema ever filmed. Masterpiece.
This is a movie that builds slowly but surely, the intensity hidden below the surface finally erupting in a climax that has to rank as one of the most horrifying sequences in film history. Unpleasant, difficult, scathing, and ultimately shattering. On a side note, I heard René Cl...( read more)
I'm sorry but I had no problems with the scene of Donny Sutherland stopping that little bitch to death Another surrealist/magic realism fav.
Ignored since its release, but a powerful adaptation of the Nathaniel West classic.
I loved this flick as a kid. All I remember is Karen Black's pathetic character & the California heat. So good.
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