Casting By (2012)

Directors

Tom Donahue

Cast

Al Pacino, Anthony Mackie, Arthur Hiller, Bette Midler, Brooke Shields, Buck Henry, Burt Young, Channing Tatum, Clint Eastwood, Cybill Shepherd, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Ed Asner, Ed Lauter, Fred Roos, Gabourey Sidibe, Gary Lockwood, George Lucas, Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Beals, Jerome Hellman, Jerry Schatzberg, John Lithgow, John Sayles, John Travolta, Jon Voight, Marion Dougherty, Martin Scorsese, Michael O'Keefe, Miguel Arteta, Morgan Freeman, Muse Watson, Ned Beatty, Norman Jewison, Oliver Stone, Paul Brickman, Paul Haggis, Paul Mazursky, Paul Rudd, Paula Weinstein, Peter Bogdanovich, Phyllis Smith, Richard Donner, Richard Dreyfuss, Risa Bramon Garcia, Robert Davi, Robert Duvall, Robert Redford, Ronny Cox, Tate Donovan, Taylor Hackford, Tony Bill, Wes Bentley, Woody Allen

The story

The film is a celebration of the casting profession, highlighting its previously unsung role in film history while also serving as an elegy to the lost era of the New Hollywood. It focuses on casting pioneer Marion Dougherty, an iconoclast whose exquisite taste, tenacity and gut instincts brought a new kind of actor to the screen that would mark the end of the old studio system and help to usher in this revolutionary new period. The film draws a line through the last half century to show us the profession's evolution from studio system type-casting to the rise of large ensemble films populated with unique and diverse casts.

Genres

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