The Day of the Locust
The Day of the Locust

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Life's flotsam and jetsam turn up at late 1930's Hollywoodland's door, once more, in this insightful tale of wannabes and desperadoes. Tod Hackett, artist, has inspirations to become noticed until he meets Faye Greener, blonde bombshell, and is immediately smitten. She has other ideas. She has Homer Simpson, victim, in her sights and cruelty and loneliness takes new meaning as all three are slowly sucked into the Hollywood system of sycophants, diggers and parasites, sucking ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Day of the Locust:

Donald Sutherland
Karen Black
Burgess Meredith
William Atherton
Geraldine Page
Richard Dysart

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Life's flotsam and jetsam turn up at late 1930's Hollywoodland's door, once more, in this insightful tale of wannabes and desperadoes. Tod Hackett, artist, has inspirations to become noticed until he meets Faye Greener, blonde bombshell, and is immediately smitten. She has other ideas. She has Homer Simpson, victim, in her sights and cruelty and loneliness takes new meaning as all three are slowly sucked into the Hollywood system of sycophants, diggers and parasites, sucking the life from others as the life, and soul, is slowly sucked from them.

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Chicago Sun-Times - 8/10 by Roger EbertThe movie finally becomes just an exercise, then: a brilliant one at times, and with a wealth of sharp-edged performances, but without people for its things to happen to.
Portland Oregonian - 8/10 by Shawn LevyIts grossness—its bigger-than-life quality — is so much a part of its style (and what West was writing about) that one respects the extravagances, the almost lunatic scale on which Mr. Schlesinger has filmed its key sequences.
Chicago Reader - 8/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumA painfully misconceived reduction and simplification by writer Waldo Salt and director John Schlesinger of the great Nathanael West novel about Hollywood in the late 30s.
New Times - 8/10 by Luke Y. ThompsonMuch has been made of the climactic riot scene, which may have seemed novel when Nathanael West first wrote it back in the '30s, but it's just plain goofy when viewed today
EmanuelLevy.Com - 8/10 by Emanuel LevyJohn (Midnight Cowboy) Schlesinger's version of Nathanael Hawthorne's powerful novel about Hollywood and its dreamers and losers in the 1930s is not always effective, but it's ambitious, daring, and very well acted.
Variety - 7/10 by Variety StaffMagnificent production, combined with excellent casting and direction, make The Day of the Locust as fine a film (in a professional sense) as the basic material lets it be.
The New Yorker - 5/10 by Pauline KaelAdmittedly the book, an elusive, mesmeric work of associated images and ideas, surreal and analytical, would present problems for the most talented of film-makers. But Schlesinger really blows it.
User Review - 10/10 by Dylan CAn incredible film of Hollywood decadence about Hollywood decadence. The performances are incredible. Brian De Palma stole a few pages out of Schlesinger's book when he made Black Dahlia.
User Review - 10/10 by Ben BAllegorical film that depicts the moral decay of 1930's Hollywood. Donald Sutherland gave an unusual performance as Homer Simpson. The epic, horrifying climax is the true highlight of the picture, one of the best sequences of cinema ever filmed. Masterpiece.
User Review - 10/10 by simon mThis is one of my favorite movies of all time, because just even thinking about it gives me an adrenalin rush. I do admit though, that there are many people who have an extreme dislike for this movie(particularly the ending). For me, this is a stunner about how second-rate human beings infest Hollywood. It is all not very subtle. It's all larger-than-life and expands on the Nathanael West novel in almost a lunatic fashion. This powerful, tragic and depressing film focuses on the characters missteps and misdeeds in an apocalyptic nightmare of 1930's Hollywood. The film follows and aspiring film designer who walks further and further into Hell as he becomes entangled with a morbid sideshow of characters on the brink of madness. John Schlesinger(Midnight Cowboy) directed this movie, which winds up with a terrifying riot at a Grauman's Chinese theater movie premiere. Some may think that the ending is overblown and too surreal, but it is a metaphor for exposing the shimmery illusions of Hollywood as a sad and gory reality. This is not a movie that will entertain most(except for the fact that Donald Sutherlands cartoonish character is named Homer Simpson)but it really takes my breath away with each viewing. Vivid and most unforgettable, but the ending will either blow you away or just piss you off. There is no in between here.

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