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- 1976
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 3 m
- 1976
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 3 m
Summary F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Directed By: Elia Kazan
Written By: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harold Pinter
- 1976
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 3 m
- 1976
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 3 m
The Last Tycoon
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Summary F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Directed By: Elia Kazan
Written By: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harold Pinter
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Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
57
27% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
73% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
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A curiously cool, but very intelligent movie. [02 Jan 2000, p.19C]
A luminous, ambitious but only fitfully alive adaptation (by Harold Pinter) of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished Hollywood novel. Robert De Niro is wonderful as the extraordinarily complex, subtle and perceptive Monroe Stahr, whom Fitzgerald based on Irving Thalberg. [01 Oct 1989, p.7]
The Last Tycoon doesn't really build to any climax. We follow it horizontally, as if it were a landscape being surveyed by a camera in a long pan-shot.
Producer Sam Spiegel's contribution is admirable, but Elia Kazan's direction of the Pinter plot seems unfocussed though craftsmanlike. Robert De Niro's performance as the inscrutable boy-wonder of films is mildly intriguing.
Fitzgerald's unfinished novel transfers awkwardly to the screen but is saved from oblivion by that always-fascinating actor De Niro, who essays the role of the movie mogul (based on MGM's Irving Thalberg).
A generally lacklustre affair. [03 Mar 2013, p.44]
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 2 Nominations
Sant Jordi Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
