Synopsis
Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.
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Cast
- Robert De NiroMonroe Stahr
- Tony CurtisRodriguez
- Robert MitchumPat Brady
- Jeanne MoreauDidi
- Jack NicholsonBrimmer
- Donald PleasenceBoxley
- Ray MillandFleishacker
- Dana AndrewsRed Ridingwood
- Ingrid BoultingKathleen Moore
- Peter StraussWylie
Recommandations
- 80
Empire
De Niro's little known masterclass makes this essential viewing. - 75
Chicago Tribune
A curiously cool, but very intelligent movie. [02 Jan 2000, p.19C] - 60
The New York Times
The Last Tycoon doesn't really build to any climax. We follow it horizontally, as if it were a landscape being surveyed by a camera in a long pan-shot. - 60
Time Out
Although uneven, the result is still a lot better than Hollywood's last look at itself (Day of the Locust) and its last slice of Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby). - 60
Los Angeles Times
A luminous, ambitious but only fitfully alive adaptation (by Harold Pinter) of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished Hollywood novel. Robert De Niro is wonderful as the extraordinarily complex, subtle and perceptive Monroe Stahr, whom Fitzgerald based on Irving Thalberg. [01 Oct 1989, p.7] - 50
Chicago Reader
Harold Pinter's cold and gnomic script seems partly to blame, as well as interfering producer Sam Spiegel; but if you forget that you're supposed to be seeing something meaningful or important, this is pretty watchable. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Fitzgerald's unfinished novel transfers awkwardly to the screen but is saved from oblivion by that always-fascinating actor De Niro, who essays the role of the movie mogul (based on MGM's Irving Thalberg). - 50
Variety
Producer Sam Spiegel's contribution is admirable, but Elia Kazan's direction of the Pinter plot seems unfocussed though craftsmanlike. Robert De Niro's performance as the inscrutable boy-wonder of films is mildly intriguing.
