Hollywoodland

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  • Opened September 8, 2006 
  • 2 hr 6 min
  • R | language, some violence and sexual content
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says not for kids. More on child suitability

  • 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 (Ben Affleck) leaves behind a fiancée - aspiring starlet Leonore Lemmon (Robin Tunney) - and millions of fans who are shocked by his death. But it is his grieving mother, Helen Bessolo (Lois Smith), who will not let the questionable circumstances surrounding his demise go unaddressed. The Los Angeles Police Department closes the case, but Helen hires - for $50 a day - private detective Louis Simo (Adrien Brody). Simo soon ascertains that the torrid affair Reeves had with Toni Mannix (Diane Lane), the wife of MGM studio executive Eddie Mannix (Bob Hoskins), might hold the key to the truth. But truth and justice are not so easily found in Hollywood. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane, Bob Hoskins
  • Director: Allen Coulter
  • Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller

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88
Chicago Tribune
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With an uncredited assist from playwright/screenwriter Howard Korder, Hollywoodland features some tart, lively banter and welcome comedic touches. Read full review

83
Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

The chief frustration of this otherwise well-made, well-acted, well-heeled picture -- a movie classy in its artful modesty, with every detail of plot and period furnishings lovingly conceived, every lick of jazz-influenced score true to the times -- is that it is so very self-absorbedly graceful about something so very insular and...unremarkable. Read full review

75
TV Guide
| Ken Fox

The title refers to the giant promotional sign for the Hollywoodland real-estate development that once loomed on the side of Mt. Cahuenga. Shorn of its last four letters 10 years before Reeves' death, it survives as the iconic Hollywood sign. Read full review

75
Rolling Stone
| Peter Travers

The irony is that Affleck's battering at the hands of fame has prepped him beautifully to play Reeves. Read full review

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