the king of marvin gardens

Director: bob rafelson

Actor: jack nicholson,bruce dern,ellen burstyn,julia anne robinson

Data Published: Fri Oct 13 1972

Genres: Drama

Key Words: watching tv,cutting one's hair,betrayal,gambling license,false promise of the american dream

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068805/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Marvin_Gardens

Description: The King of Marvin Gardens is a movie starring Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, and Ellen Burstyn. A daydreamer convinces his radio personality brother to help fund one of his get-rich-quick schemes.

Plot: David and Jason are estranged brothers, the former a depressive living with his grandfather in Philadelphia where he runs a late-night radio talk show and the latter an extrovert con man working for gang boss Lewis in Atlantic City, where he lives with the manic-depressive Sally, former beauty queen and prostitute, and her stepdaughter Jessica. Begging David to come to Atlantic City and bail him out of jail, Jason once freed persuades him to stay on in his hotel suite with the two women. Tensions grow between the four as Jason pursues a ludicrous dream of conning a Japanese syndicate into buying a Hawaiian island where he will build and run a casino. The sceptical David has no faith in Jason's scam, while Jason chides David for wallowing in his dark, lonely depressed life. Sally, increasingly neurotic over losing her looks, cuts off her hair and throws away her cosmetics. When Jason starts packing to leave for Hawaii, in rage and despair she shoots him dead. David escorts his brother's corpse home to Philadelphia by train.