Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies. This gonzo narrative, “an inkblot test of Mailer’s own subconscious” (Time), becomes something like a documentary on its own making when costar Rip Torn breaks the fourth wall in one of cinema’s most alarming on-screen outbursts.
Directed by Norman Mailer
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Letterboxd
3.0 / 5
Cast
Norman Mailer
Norman T. Kingsley
Rip Torn
Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
Joy Bang
Joy Broom
Beverly Bentley
Chula Mae Kingsley
Penelope Milford
Lucy Saroyan
Lane Smith
José Torres
Hervé Villechaize
Ultra Violet
Herself
Harris Yulin
Crew
Norman Mailer
Director
Norman Mailer
Writer
Norman Mailer
Editor
D. A. Pennebaker
Director of Photography
Norman Mailer
Producer
Richard Leacock
Cinematography
D. A. Pennebaker
Cinematography
Nick Doob
Cinematography
Popular Reviews
1 review
Jacob Dickens
3.9★ · 05/23/15
I can summarize my feelings for the film like this: I have not checked how long until a movie ended more times than in this movie.
I can summarize my feelings for the film like this: I have not checked how long until a movie ended more times than in this movie.