An All-American college star and his beauty queen wife watch their seemingly perfect life fall apart as their daughter joins the turmoil of '60s America.An All-American college star and his beauty queen wife watch their seemingly perfect life fall apart as their daughter joins the turmoil of '60s America.An All-American college star and his beauty queen wife watch their seemingly perfect life fall apart as their daughter joins the turmoil of '60s America.
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- 1 win & 3 nominations
- Merry (8 Years Old)
- (as Ocean Nalu James)
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- TriviaPaul Bettany was cast as Swede, Jennifer Connelly as his wife and Evan Rachel Wood as their daughter. All dropped out in 2004, after the movie spent many years in development. After 10 years, Connelly returned in the lead role, alongside Ewan McGregor.
- GoofsThe newspaper's masthead identifies 1970 as it's "141th Year." Should have been "141st Year."
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[last lines]
Nathan Zuckerman: [narrating funeral] You come at people with an open mind, and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You get them wrong while you're with them, or you tell someone about them and get them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive. We are wrong. About the Swede, how life was going to open its arms and shower blessings upon him, I was never more wrong about anyone in my life.
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Written by Al Sherman
Performed by Kay Starr
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The main issue, is that while Dakota Fanning is a talented actor, the screenplay writing of her part in the film really fails.
In the novel she is a psychopath murdering innocent people in involved with people who think Stalin was a good guy. She is literally the equivalent of a neo-Nazi terrorist but on the extreme left. The film just doesn't delve into that and fails completely as a result. Some of the commentary on this review section shows that people who have not read the novel completely misunderstand this film, given the source material is about the destruction the daughter wreaks on her family and others.
Skip the film and give the novel a read.
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- Also known as
- El fin del sueño americano
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $544,098
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $149,038
- Oct 23, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $2,063,436
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1