The Day of the Locust
By train, by car, by bus, they came to Hollywood... in search of a dream.
Dramabased on novel or bookcinema on cinemamovie businesssocial satirehollywoodlos angeles, californialynch mobdisturbedaccountantlonely man1930smovie mogul
A caustic, melancholic portrait of Hollywood's underbelly in the 1930s, where desperate dreamers collide with industry machinery and moral decay.
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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