Fresh
Magnificent production, combined with excellent casting and direction, make The Day of the Locust as fine a film (in a professional sense) as the basic material lets it be.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Day of the Locust
By train, by car, by bus, they came to Hollywood... in search of a dream.
1975 · 2h 25m · R
Drama
Directed by
John Schlesinger
,
William Castle
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The Day of the Locust
Overview
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
Director and cast
- John Schlesinger Director
- William Castle Director
- Donald Sutherland as Homer Simpson
- Karen Black as Faye Greener
- Burgess Meredith as Harry Greener
- William Atherton as Tod Hackett
- Geraldine Page as Big Sister
- Richard Dysart as Claude Estee
- Bo Hopkins as Earle Shoop
- Pepe Serna as Miguel
- Lelia Goldoni as Mary Dove
- Jackie Earle Haley as Adore Loomis
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
65%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The narrative is often confused and confusing.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Schlesinger has conceived his film as an epic, which was a daring thing to do with such slender material.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
A painfully misconceived reduction and simplification.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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