The Day of the Locust
By train, by car, by bus, they came to Hollywood... in search of a dream.
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5/7/1975Runtime
145 minsGenres
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Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
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A corrosive portrait of Hollywood's underbelly in the 1930s, where desperate dreamers collide in a system designed to consume them. The film watches these damaged people orbit each other with a cold, unflinching eye, building toward a crescendo of chaos and violence.
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