Synopsis
A cultural portrait of the American dream at a critical time in the nation’s history. Set against the 2016 American election, The King takes a musical road trip across the country in Elvis Presley's 1963 Rolls Royce.
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Cast
- Alec BaldwinSelf
- Tony BrownSelf
- James CarvilleSelf
- Maggie CliffordSelf
- Chuck DSelf
- Radney FosterSelf
- Patricia GainesSelf
- Mary GauthierSelf
- Emmylou HarrisSelf
- Ethan HawkeSelf
Recommendations
- 100
Movie Nation
It’ll be on PBS at some point, but don’t wait. Seeing it in a cinema has a hint of religious experience about it. - 100
Movie Nation
It’ll be on PBS at some point, but don’t wait. Seeing it in a cinema has a hint of religious experience about it. - 91
IndieWire
A documentary as sprawling and brilliant and flawed as the country it traverses, Eugene Jarecki’s The Promised Land is a fascinatingly overstuffed portrait of America in decline. - 91
IndieWire
A documentary as sprawling and brilliant and flawed as the country it traverses, Eugene Jarecki’s The Promised Land is a fascinatingly overstuffed portrait of America in decline. - 88
Rolling Stone
It's hard to pinpoint exactly when this random, scattershot, overreaching movie stops spinning its wheels and starts flying on a cumulative power that floors you. But when it happens – kapow! By the end we’re looking at Elvis, America and ourselves with new eyes and wondering, once again, if the truth really can set us free. - 88
Rolling Stone
It's hard to pinpoint exactly when this random, scattershot, overreaching movie stops spinning its wheels and starts flying on a cumulative power that floors you. But when it happens – kapow! By the end we’re looking at Elvis, America and ourselves with new eyes and wondering, once again, if the truth really can set us free. - 80
The Guardian
Jarecki uses Elvis Presley’s career and influence to help us make sense of fame, power, corruption, self-destructive behaviour and pretty much all the other ills of the world. - 80
Screen Daily
Promised Land deftly flits from biography to impact study to cinematic essay on the boom and bust of happiness-peddling myths, drawing a clear line from the music king to the current US leader.
