2006 · crime · drama · mystery
Hollywoodland
Directed by Allen Coulter2h 6m2006
When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of lies involving a big studio executive's wife. Based on a true story.
Our read: Hollywoodland (2006) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded crime · drama · mystery entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- cold
- intimate
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