Based on flamboyant producer Robert Evans's autobiography of the same name, Brett Morgan and Nanette Burstein's documentary is a highly stylized exercise in Hollywood hagiography — Morgan himself dubbed it "cinema mythologica." It traces Evans' volatile career from his inauspicious beginnings as a pretty boy actor to the glory days when, as a Paramount Pictures executive and solo producer, he was attached to a string of critical and box office hits, including ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968), LOVE STORY (1970), THE GODFATHER (1972), CHINATOWN (1974) and MARATHON MAN (1976). A cocaine bust, THE COTTON CLUB (1984) debacle, bankruptcy, depression and Evans' tangential associ...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
93 mins