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The Day of the Locust

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The Day of the Locust
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R,2hrs 24min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1975
Director:
John Schlesinger
Distributor:
Paramount Pictures
Starring:
Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith  ...more
Synopsis: The Day of the Locust is anything but a cheerful, light look at Hollywood in the '30s. It recreates both the town as well as the filmmaking world around which much of the town revolved with devastating accuracy. The movie tells the twin tales of talentless wannabe actress Faye Greener (Karen Black) and Homer Simpson (Donald Sutherland), a lovelorn accountant who couldn't care less about movies. Around this framework, a huge and intricate social network is tellingly revealed, until the film's gruesome ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
Scripted by Waldo Salt from Nathaniel West's scalding 1930s Hollywood novel, John Schlesinger's lavish adaptation of The Day of the Locust (1975) is a wrenching, if imperfect, indictment of America's Tinseltown mindset. Recreating Golden Age Hollywood with seedy realism and film fantasy artificiality, Schlesinger and Salt punctuate the downward spiral of William Atherton's aspiring art director, Karen ... Full Review
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Donald Sutherland
Homer
Karen Black
Faye Greener
Burgess Meredith
Harry Greener
William Atherton
Tod Hackett
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