The Kid Stays in the Picture
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| Directed by | Nanette Burstein Brett Morgen |
| Produced by | Nanette Burstein Brett Morgen[1] |
| Written by | Nanette Burstein Brett Morgen |
| Narrated by | Robert Evans |
| Distributed by | Focus Features USA Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 2002 |
| Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Kid Stays in the Picture is the name of a 1994 autobiography by film producer Robert Evans. It is also the name of a 2002 film adaptation of the book directed by Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen and released by Focus Features and USA Pictures. It was screened out of competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
[edit] Synopsis
The book chronicles Evans' rise from childhood to radio star to film star to production chief of Paramount Pictures to independent producer, his marriage to Ali MacGraw, his downfall including his 1980 cocaine bust and implication in the murder of Roy Radin, aka "The Cotton Club Murder", his banishment from Paramount Pictures, and his return to the studio in the early 1990s.
A revised edition of the book, published in 1995, adds several chapters of new material, including material on his projects after his return to Paramount Pictures.
The film version, released in 2002, utilizes Evans' narration interspersed with film footage from films such as Love Story, The Sun Also Rises, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, and The Godfather, along with interviews and photographs from Evans' life, to tell the story from his discovery by Norma Shearer for Man of a Thousand Faces, to his return to Paramount Pictures.
Many elements from the book, according to the commentary by directors Burstein and Morgen on the DVD, such as Evans' childhood and his other marriages (the film focuses only on his marriage to Ali MacGraw) were dropped because they felt that it did not move the story along.
The title comes from a line attributed to studio head Darryl F. Zanuck, who was defending Evans after some of the actors involved in The Sun Also Rises had recommended he be removed from the cast.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/kidstays.php
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Kid Stays in the Picture". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3110701/year/2002.html. Retrieved 2009-11-04.
[edit] External links
- The Kid Stays in the Picture at the Internet Movie Database
- Review of The Kid Stays In The Picture
- DVD Verdict review
- DVD Talk review
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