The Day of the Locust (1975)

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Drama - Thriller

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Life's flotsam and jetsam turn up at late 1930's Holloywoodland's door, once more, in this insightful tale of wannabes and desperadoes. Tod Hackett, artist, has inspirations to become noticed until he meets Faye Greener, blonde bombshell, and is immediately smitten. She has other ideas. She has Homer Simpson, victim, in her sights and cruelty and loneliness takes new meaning as all three are slowly sucked into the Hollywood system of sycophants, liggers and parasites, sucking the life from others as the life, and soul, is slowly sucked from them.

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De jonge artiest Tod Hackett (Atherton) trekt naar Hollywood in de jaren '30 en verwacht een wereld van glitter en glamour. Wat hij tegenkomt is echter een stad van gebroken mensen, verloren dromen en halve gekken. Allen komen bij elkaar voor een rampzalige Hollywood-première. Gebaseerd op het boek van Nathaniël West.

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Based on Nathanael West's satirical novel, John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust is an absorbing look at the desperate characters who populate the Hollywood film industry. Idealistic young set designer Tod Hackett (William Atherton) travels to 1930s-era Hollywood to find fame and fortune but encounters a dismal world of broken people, shattered dreams, and phoney healers pandering to the lost. He soon falls in love with aspiring actress Faye Greener (Karen Black), a cruel, manipulative woman who lives with her drunken father (Burgess Meredith, in an Oscar-nominated performance) and loves the strange man-child ...
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Homer Simpson (Donald Sutherland). Their passions collide at a disastrous Hollywood premiere that remains one of the most horrifying and tragic climaxes in film history.
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Clever

Cynical

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