Ryan O'Neal,
Burt Reynolds,
Tatum O'Neal,
Brian Keith,
Stella Stevens
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Peter Bogdanovich's early career as a film writer stood him in good stead for this comedy drama about the early days of the motion-picture industry, based in part on his interviews with pioneering dir... read more
DVD Release Date: April 21, 2009
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January 3, 2011I caught the ending of this movie on TV, I'd been wanting to see it for some time, and I liked it, but I really want to see the rest of the movie.
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October 13, 2009Griffin's first and last film. He had talent and looks and gives a great performance, in this offbeat, magical film. Unfortunately, getting stoned and drunk and then decapitating Coppola's son in a speed boat crash is a sure career killer.
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August 17, 2010
Variety Staff, Variety
August 17, 2010
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Bogdanovich is trying to do an interesting and commendable thing in dramatizing aesthetic passion; his failure is as noble as it is conspicuous. Full Review
August 17, 2010
Richard Eder, New York Times
Peter Bogdanovich knows a great deal about movies, including how they are made. Perhaps he doesn't know why they are made. In any case, knowing how something is made isn't the same as making it. Full Review
August 17, 2010
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
We're reminded that Orson Welles described a movie studio as the biggest electric train a kid could ever get. Bogdanovich doesn't let us play with his train. Instead, he keeps us on the outside of a c... Full Review
August 17, 2010
TV Guide's Movie Guide
As an homage to the start of the film industry, this extravaganza is quite a tribute, but as a motion picture it's sadly lacking. Full Review
August 17, 2010
Time Out
The direction is agonisingly pedantic for a comedy, and leaves O'Neal and Reynolds totally exposed, mugging away in charmless and clumsy fashion. Full Review
August 17, 2010
Film4
A clunker of a comedy from Bogdanovich that aims high and misses by a mile. Full Review
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