The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
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Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 12 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 6.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Synopsis: THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS is a dark drama about two brothers who team up for an odd real estate scheme involving a Hawaiian island. Jason (Bruce Dern) summons his younger sibling, David (Jack Nicholson), a Philadelphia radio personality, to join him in Atlantic City to get the deal going. But... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Ellen Burstyn, Bruce Dern, Julia Anne Robinson, Scatman Crothers
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Admirers of director Bob Rafelson's previous feature, Five Easy Pieces, will be stunned by the tedious pretensions of his newest effort.
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07/26/07
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A worthwhile Rafelson outing with striking photography by Laszlo Kovacs
08/27/06
Bob Rafelson's The King of Marvin Gardens is a perversely satisfying movie -- it works after going out of its way not to -- and a very eccentric one.
10/23/04
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Memorable performances from the players, including Ellen Burstyn as a psychotic girlfriend of Dern's.
07/08/04
Irresistible. It was a bitterly odd pic that offered an Atlantic City scenario that had no saltwater taffy to sweeten the taste.
09/02/03
One of those interesting, well-acted chamber dramas at which 1970s Hollywood excelled.
08/16/03
Rafelson's kind of poetic realism, an accuracy in the treatment of unexpected settings, looked like quality to some in Five Easy Pieces two years back. Now it looks like the most pretentious of tired clichés.
05/21/03
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This film about one man's quest for the easy road to Boardwalk is a bleak meditation on the American dream, with an edgy performance by Jack Nicolson.
02/07/02
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