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The Last Tycoon

He has the power to make anyone's dream come true... except his own.

1976 · 2h 3m · PG Drama, Romance
Directed by Elia Kazan

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Overview

Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.

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44%
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Fresh

De Niro proves again how well he can carry a part, and is particularly good in scenes dealing with the day-to-day business of movie-making.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh

The movie is full of echoes. We watch it as if at a far remove from what's happening, but that too is appropriate: Fitzgerald was writing history as it happened.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten

Elia Kazan now admits that he directed this adaptation, his last Hollywood film, for the money. Unfortunately, it looks it.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten

Producer Sam Spiegel's contribution is admirable, but Elia Kazan's direction of the Pinter plot seems unfocussed though craftsmanlike. Robert De Niro's performance as the inscrutable boy-wonder of films is mildly intriguing.

Variety

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