(Why yes, the subject of what’s happening in Germany does come up.) Monroe, we learn right away, is mourning the loss of his movie star wife even as he bounds around the studio, supervising every detail with seemingly limitless energy and passion. Matt Bomer stars as Monroe Stahr, the idealistic production head of a motion picture studio who’s at odds with studio boss Pat Brady (Kelsey Grammer) while trying to get his dream picture made in the political and social climate of the 1930s. Scott Fitzgerald) might seem a bit rote, but it’s got an awful lot going for it. With that in mind, “The Last Tycoon,” written and directed by Billy Ray (the under-appreciated talent behind such films as “Shattered Glass,” adapting a famously unfinished roman a clef by F. In the year 2016, it’s no secret that as glamorous as old Hollywood seemed on the surface, the truth was far less wholesome.
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