What is Play It As It Lays / The Projectionist about?

PLAY IT AS IT LAYS, Director Frank Perry delivered many edgy psychological classics, and none is more deserving of rediscovery than this rarely screened adaptation of Joan Didion’s bestseller, with a screenplay by Didion and her late husband, John Gregory Dunne. Tuesday Weld is at her best as fiercely intelligent Maria, an ex-model on the verge of a nervous breakdown. In-the-closet producer Anthony Perkins is her only friend and Adam Roarke is her estranged director-husband trying to jumpstart his career out of the biker-film ghetto. THE PROJECTIONIST, A lonely projectionist (Chuck McCann) spends his life daydreaming that he's superhero Captain Flash; his imaginary persona takes him and the audience on a series of adventures that alleviate the boredom of his daily existence. Rodney Dangerfield made his feature film debut as the projectionist's boss in this cult favorite.

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What is Play It As It Lays / The Projectionist about?: PLAY IT AS IT LAYS, Director Frank Perry delivered many edgy psychological classics, and none is more deserving of rediscovery than this rarely screened adaptation of Joan Didion’s bestseller, with a screenplay by Didion and her late husband, John Gregory Dunne. Tuesday Weld is at her best as fiercely intelligent Maria, an ex-model on the verge of a nervous breakdown. In-the-closet producer Anthony Perkins is her only friend and Adam Roarke is her estranged director-husband trying to jumpstart his career out of the biker-film ghetto.

THE PROJECTIONIST, A lonely projectionist (Chuck McCann) spends his life daydreaming that he's superhero Captain Flash; his imaginary persona takes him and the audience on a series of adventures that alleviate the boredom of his daily existence. Rodney Dangerfield made his feature film debut as the projectionist's boss in this cult favorite.