The Great Gatsby (1974)
38 %
Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 10 Rotten:16 Average Rating: 4.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 26 mins
Synopsis:
Jack Clayton's version of THE GREAT GATSBY was adapted for the screen by Francis Ford Coppola from F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 masterpiece about a handsome and enigmatic tycoon betrayed by the American Dream. Though self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby (Robert Redford) has been in love with the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Sam Waterston, Karen Black
Director: Jack Clayton
Screenwriter: Francis Ford Coppola
Story: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Producer: David Merrick
Composer: Nelson Riddle
Screenwriter: Francis Ford Coppola
Story: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Producer: David Merrick
Composer: Nelson Riddle
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Reviews
The color is rich, the photography superb, and the atmospherics of the roaring twenties are realistically and stunningly in evidence in this film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece novel, but that's it.
07/26/07 01:53 PM
The Francis Coppola script and Jack Clayton's direction paint a savagely genteel portrait of an upper class generation that deserved in spades what it got circa 1929 and after.
07/26/07 01:52 PM
Top Critic Director Jack Clayton seems overawed by the opulence of the production as well as by the mythic presence of Fitzgerald -- and the result is a film of shimmering surface brilliance and almost complete lack of focus or substance.
07/26/07 01:51 PM
Top Critic A literary adaptation that continually begs detrimental comparison with the novel, this relies too much on appearance, making little attempt to explore behind the beguiling '20s façade.
06/24/06 03:31 AM
The movie can't see this through all its giant closeups of pretty knees and dancing feet. It's frivolous without being much fun.
05/09/05 03:15 AM
Top Critic The movie is 'faithful' to the novel with a vengeance -- to what happens in the novel, that is, and not to the feel, mood, and spirit of it.
10/23/04 10:27 PM
Top Critic Though lush in nearly every way, under the reproachful eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg, The Great Gatsby becomes ineffectual and rudderless.
08/22/04 09:08 PM
Call it a convincing argument for separation of book and film.
01/09/04 05:21 AM
Robert Redford offers an interesting take on mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby.
12/05/03 01:19 AM
...an opulent, stylish extravaganza that may be more faithful to the 'look' of Fitzgerald's novel than to its spirit, yet brings a good deal of entertainment along the way.
11/21/03 09:47 PM
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