Drama

Romance

The Great Gatsby

Paramount Pictures

United States of America

English

Robert Redford

Mia Farrow

Bruce Dern

Karen Black

Scott Wilson

Sam Waterston

Lois Chiles

Howard Da Silva

Roberts Blossom

Edward Herrmann

Elliott Sullivan

Arthur Hughes

Kathryn Leigh Scott

Beth Porter

Paul Tamarin

John Devlin

Patsy Kensit

Marjorie Wildes

Blain Fairman

Norman Chancer

Bob Sherman

Regina Baff

Janet Arters

Louise Arters

John Franchi

Sammy Smith

Franklin Cover

Brooke Adams

Ramon Gordon

Duncan Inches

Mildred Shay

Nick Lucas

James Berwick

Tom Ewell

Jerry Mayer

Vincent Schiavelli

Jack Clayton

Francis Ford Coppola

F. Scott Fitzgerald

David Merrick

Douglas Slocombe

Tom Priestley

Hank Moonjean

John Box

Robert W. Laing

Gene Rudolf

Peter Howitt

Herbert F. Mulligan

Theoni V. Aldredge

Ramon Gow

Gary Liddiard

Charles E. Parker

Norman I. Cohen

Peter Price

Alex Hapsas

David Tringham

George Richardson

Ken Barker

Terry Rawlings

Brian Simmons

Marie Cosindas

David Haylock

Robin Vidgeon

Chic Waterson

Irene Lamb

Alan Jones

Nelson Riddle

Annabel Davis-Goff

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"Nick" (Sam Waterston) lives in a cottage on the edge of the estate owned by the enigmatic "Gatsby" (Robert Redford) and is fascinated by the man. He has old money wealth and regularly hosts lavish parties for strangers whom her barely knows and to which he rarely bothers to go. "Nick" is unexpectedly invited to one such party and then to meet the man himself who isn't quite what he was expecting. This is the start of an unusual friendship that introduces him to a life of shallow profligacy, duplicity and some fairly ghastly individuals. "Gatsby" has taken a shine to "Daisy" (Mia Farrow) who is married to the rather brutish "Tom" (Bruce Dorn) and much of the rest of this lengthy period melodrama follows the intricacies of the new relationship between these two men, and of the latter man's increasingly dubious lifestyle that isn't quite playing out as "Nick" anticipated. Now this adaptation is an almost literal one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel - and that might have worked were we in a theatre. We are not, though, and what we are presented with here is a wordy and frankly rather sterile and plodding character study. Too much reliance is placed on the aesthetic elements - the costumes, sets, lavishness of the parties; indeed the imagery is gorgeous. It's supposed to be a love story, but the purported relationship between Redford and Farrow just doesn't resonate. I never really understood why she was so acclaimed in the first place - her performances were always rather hit or miss. The narration from Waterston also becomes a little too flat and the contrasting existences of the fabulously wealthy and the subsistence poor is hardly developed at all. My star of the film is Karen Black's "Myrtle" - possibly the only persona here that exudes anything like a sense of personality as she juggles her marriage and her affair. This is a nasty story about selfish and thoughtless people, but this iteration simply fails to capture that emotion, or - indeed - any other emotion either. Lots and lots of style, but it's lacking soul.

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