The read
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 83% of the 7,176 2010s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
At a media-swamped party to celebrate his seventieth birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes82%
Metacritic80/100
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do.
241 audience votes
Key crew
- Orson WellesDirector
- Oja KodarWriter
- Michel LegrandOriginal Music Composer
- Orson WellesScreenplay
Cast
- John HustonJ.J. 'Jake' Hannaford
- Oja KodarThe Actress
- Peter BogdanovichBrooks Otterlake
- Susan StrasbergJuliette Rich
- Norman FosterBilly Boyle
- Robert RandomOscar 'John' Dale
- Lilli PalmerZarah Valeska
- Edmond O'BrienPat Mullins
- Mercedes McCambridgeMaggie Noonan
- Cameron MitchellMatt "Zimmie" Zimmer
- Paul StewartMatt Costello
- Gregory SierraJack Simon
Stills
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Themes
1970ssatirecomebackparodymockumentaryfilm in filmhollywooddirectorfilmmakingdeathfilm director