The Day of the Locust

(1975)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 113 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1975

Runtime: 145 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: John Schlesinger

Cast: Дональд Сазерленд, Карен Блэк, Бёрджесс Мередит, William Atherton, Geraldine Page, Ричард А. Дайсарт, Бо Хопкинс, Пепе Серна, Lelia Goldoni, Джэки Ерл Хейли

Plot

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.

Life's flotsam and jetsam turn up at late 1930's Hollywoodland's door, once more, in this insightful tale of wannabes and desperadoes. Tod Hackett, artist, has inspirations to become noticed until he meets Faye Greener, blonde bombshell, and is immediately smitten. She has other ideas. She has Homer Simpson, victim, in her sights and cruelty and loneliness takes new meaning as all three are slowly sucked into the Hollywood system of sycophants, diggers and parasites, sucking the life from others as the life, and soul, is slowly sucked from them.