The King of Marvin Gardens

(1972)

★ 5.9 IMDb · 101 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1972

Runtime: 103 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Боб Рейфелсон

Cast: Джек Николсон, Брюс Дерн, Эллен Бёрстин, Julia Anne Robinson, Скэтмэн Крозерс, Charles LaVine, John P. Ryan, Sully Boyar, Josh Mostel, Arnold Williams

Plot

Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.

'It's Monopoly out there'. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island - asking him to believe in yet another of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real life reduced to radio drama.