Source:
Focus Features Date: 3rd August, 2006 Posted by:
Paul Heath
Focus
Features have sent over a bunch of nee on sheet posters for the September release,
HOLLYWOODLAND.
June
16, 1959. The glamour of Tinseltown permanently fades for actor George Reeves,
the heroic Man of Steel on TV's Adventures of Superman, as the actor dies in his
Hollywood Hills home. Felled by a single gunshot wound, Reeves (portrayed in Hollywoodland
by Academy Award winner Ben Affleck) leaves behind a fiancée - aspiring
starlet Leonore Lemmon (Robin Tunney) - and millions of fans who are shocked by
his death. But it is his grieving mother, Helen Bessolo (Lois Smith), who will
not let the questionable circumstances surrounding his demise go unaddressed.
Helen seeks justice, or at least answers. The Los Angeles Police Department closes
the case, but Helen hires - for $50 a day - private detective Louis Simo (Academy
Award winner Adrien Brody). Simo soon ascertains that the torrid affair Reeves
had with Toni Mannix (Academy Award nominee Diane Lane), the wife of MGM studio
executive Eddie Mannix (Academy Award nominee Bob Hoskins), might hold the key
to the truth.
But
truth and justice are not so easily found in Hollywood. Simo pursues dangerous
and elusive leads in both high and low places and, in trying to turn up the heat,
risks getting burned. The detective also uncovers unexpected connections to his
own life as the case turns more personal and he learns more about Reeves himself.
Behind the icon was a complex man who gave his life to Hollywood in more ways
than one.
