The King of Marvin Gardens
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10/12/1972Runtime
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Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.
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A slow, atmospheric study of delusion and sibling loyalty set against Atlantic City's seedy underbelly, where grand dreams collapse under the weight of hard reality. The film unfolds like a fever dream of small betrayals and missed connections.
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