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Release
Date: |
09/08/2006
- Nationwide |
Run
Time: |
2
hr. 16 min. |
MPAA
Rating: |
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| For
language, some violence and sexual content. |
Genre: |
Drama |
Starring: |
Adrien
Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins, Robin Tunney |
Director(s): |
Allen
Coulter |
Producer(s): |
Glenn
Williamson |
Writer(s): |
Paul
Bernbaum |
Studio: |
Focus
Features |
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| Synopsis |
| June 16, 1959. The glamour
of Tinseltown permanently fades for actor George Reeves, the heroic
Man of Steel on TV's Adventures of Superman, as the actor dies in
his Hollywood Hills home. Felled by a single gunshot wound, Reeves
leaves behind a fiancée--aspiring starlet Leonore Lemmon--and
millions of fans who are shocked by his death. But it is his grieving
mother, Helen Bessolo, who will not let the questionable circumstances
surrounding his demise go unaddressed. Helen seeks justice, or at
least answers. The Los Angeles Police Department closes the case,
but Helen hires--for $50 a day--private detective Louis Simo. Simo
soon ascertains that the torrid affair Reeves had with Toni Mannix,
the wife of MGM studio executive Eddie Mannix, might hold the key
to the truth. But truth and justice are not so easily found in Hollywood.
Simo pursues dangerous and elusive leads in both high and low places
and, in trying to turn up the heat, risks getting burned. The detective
also uncovers unexpected connections to his own life as the case turns
more personal and he learns more about Reeves himself. Behind the
icon was a complex man who gave his life to Hollywood in more ways
than one. |
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