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The King of Marvin Gardens
Drama - 1972
6.6
71%
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Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
103 min
Release date:
12 Oct 1972
Country:
US
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
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Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
Rafelson's kind of poetic realism, an accuracy in the treatment of unexpected settings, looked like quality to some in Five Easy Pieces two years back. Now it looks like the most pretentious of tired cliches.
– Roger Greenspun,
New York Times,
21 May 2003
fresh:
Bob Rafelson's The King of Marvin Gardens is a perversely satisfying movie -- it works after going out of its way not to -- and a very eccentric one.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
An odd, unsettling movie overall, vague in its characterisation and narrative, dotted with bewildering asides and lacking any real warmth or humour.
– Tom Huddleston,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
The film is talky and often abrasive, but it sticks in the mind.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
26 Jul 2007
rotten:
Admirers of director Bob Rafelson's previous feature, Five Easy Pieces, will be stunned by the tedious pretensions of his newest effort.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Jul 2007
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