Hollywoodland (2006)

Release date: 2006-09-08
Country: USA
Language: English|Spanish
Director: Allen Coulter
Production Co: Focus Features, Miramax, Back Lot Pictures
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Rating: 6.5/10
Length: 2h 6min

Storyline

Struggling private investigator Louis Simo treats his work more as a means to make a living than a want to do right by what few clients he has. Through connections with the investigation firm for which he used to work, Simo is hired by Helen Bessolo to investigate the death of her son, actor George Reeves. Reeves was best known for his title role in Adventures of Superman (1952), a role which he always despised, in part since it typecast him as a "cartoon", despite it bringing him a certain fame. His June 16, 1959 death by a single gunshot wound while in his bedroom in his Los Angeles home was ruled a suicide by the police, the death which occurred when the house was filled with people. Reeves' story is told in part in flashback as Simo, who is trying to make a name for himself with this case, talks to or tries to talk to some of the players involved, most specifically the wife of MGM General Manager E.J. Mannix, Toni Mannix, with whom Reeves was having a relatively open and ...

Plot Keywords

adultery, extramarital affair, cleavage, upskirt, white panties, panties, infidelity, sex in a bathtub, fellatio, unfaithfulness, underwear, female nudity, actress, sexy woman, adulterous wife, scantily clad female, mistress, lesbian, year 1959, morgue

Short Review

It's worth seeing for Affleck alone, deftly communicating the distance between the put-on cardboard debonairness of this hunk-about-town and the gnawing uncertainties beneath his Superman outfit.