The Day of the Locust (1975)

Directors

John Schlesinger

Cast

William Atherton, Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, Geraldine Page, Richard A. Dysart, Bo Hopkins, Pepe Serna, Lelia Goldoni, Billy Barty

The story

Aspiring artist and recent Yale graduate Tod Hackett arrives in 1930s Hollywood to work as an art department production illustrator at a major film studio. He rents an apartment in the San Bernardino Arms, a rundown bungalow court occupied by various people, many on the fringes of the industry: Among them are Faye Greener, a tawdry aspiring actress; her father Harry, an ex-vaudevillian; Abe Kusich, a dwarf who carries on a tempestuous relationship with his girlfriend, Mary; and Adore Loomis, a young boy whose mother is hoping to turn him into a child star. Faye later meets Homer Simpson, a repressed accountant who lives in a nearby…

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