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MPAA Raing: R
Director: John Schlesinger
Genres: Satire, Showbiz Drama, Drama
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Summary:
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 c... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Donald Sutherland - (Homer)
Karen Black - (Faye Greener)
Burgess Meredith - (Harry Greener)
William Atherton - (Tod Hackett)
Geraldine Page - (Big Sister)
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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 punctuat... Continue >>

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