The Day of the Locust (1975)2h25
Drama
Director John Schlesinger (6.5 avg)
Also directed Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man, Eye for an Eye, and 29 more
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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Cast
Donald Sutherland
Karen Black
Burgess Meredith
William Atherton
Geraldine Page
Richard Dysart
Bo Hopkins
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