A brilliant and efficient studio executive juggles several productions, deals with nervous actors and recalcitrant directors, and secretly carries on a love affair with a detached English girl.
If the plot sounds stodgy and haphazard, you already have a good impression of this sad waste of accumulated talent.
Halliwel (no star): "Astonishingly inept and boring big budget all-star melodrama which doesn't even begin promisingly (the scenes from supposed thirties films are woefully inaccurate in style); it then bogs down in interminable dialogue scenes, leaving its famous cast all at sea."
Maltin***1/2: "Low-keyed but effective Harold Pinter adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's final novel benefits immeasurably from De Niro's great, uncharacteristic performance (inspired by Irving Thalberg) who is slowly working himself to death. Along with Joan Micklin Silver's TV film BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR the best Fitzgerald yet put on the screen."
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