Monroe Stahr (Robert de Niro) is a hotshot Golden Age Hollywood studio executive. Everything he touches seems to succeed but he is haunted by the death of his wife. An earthquake causes damage to the studio sets, and while supervising, Stahr sees a young woman who looks exactly like his late wife. Kathleen (Ingrid Boulting) keeps telling him no but he pursues her anyway.
If you are in the right mood, this is probably a really lovely film about the price of success versus happiness. If you're not, this is a nothing-burger about a man who experiences one (1) rejection and torpedoes his career. Guess which one I was in.
The cast is stacked with Robert Mitchum, Tony Curtis, and De Niro, and with cameos/bit roles from Donald Pleasance, Ray Milland, John Carradine, Anjelica Huston, and Jack Nicholson. It was directed by Elia Kazan from a screenplay by Harold Pinter, based on an unfinished F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. Which I think is the problem. If you kept one of those elements and nixed the rest, it probably would have made for a better movie.
It's streaming on Kanopy but there are much better films out there.
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