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Release Date
• USA: Sep 8, 2006
BoxOffice: $10.5M
Official Website:
Hollywoodland Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for language, some violence and sexual content.
Running Time
2 hours, 6 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Back Lot Pictures, Focus Features, Miramax Films
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Other Titles
• Truth, Justice, and the American Way
• Untitled George Reeves Project
• Hollywoodland (2006)
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Tagline: Living in Holly wood can make you famous. Dying in Hollywood can make you a legend.
Plot: June 16, 1959. The glamour of Tinseltown permanently fades for actor George Reeves, the heroic Man of Steel on TV’s Adventures of Superman, as the actor dies in his Hollywood Hills home. Felled by a single gunshot wound, Reeves (Ben Affleck) leaves behind a fiancée – aspiring starlet Leonore Lemmon (Robin Tunney) – and millions of fans who are shocked by his death. But it is his grieving mother, Helen Bessolo (Lois Smith), who will not let the questionable circumstances surrounding his demise go unaddressed. Helen seeks justice, or at least answers. The Los Angeles Police Department closes the case, but Helen hires – for $50 a day – private detective Louis Simo (Adrien Brody). Simo soon ascertains that the torrid affair Reeves had with Toni Mannix (Diane Lane), the wife of MGM studio executive Eddie Mannix (Bob Hoskins), might hold the key to the truth.But truth and justice are not so easily found in Hollywood. Simo pursues dangerous and elusive leads in both high and low places and, in trying to turn up the heat, risks getting burned. The detective also uncovers unexpected connections to his own life as the case turns more personal and he learns more about Reeves himself. Behind the icon was a complex man who gave his life to Hollywood in more ways than one.
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| Directed by |
Allen Coulter
Golden Years, Lifestories: Families in Crisis: The Secret Life of Mary Margare, X Files, The: All Souls |
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Marcelo Zarvos
The Good Shepherd, Kissing Jessica Stein, The Door in the Floor |
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