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Hollywoodland (2006)

★ 6.1 · 447 ratings on TMDB

In a town full of fiction, everyone has a version of the truth.

Hollywoodland poster★ 6.1

When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of lies involving a big studio executive's wife. Based on a true story.

DirectorAllen Coulter
CastAdrien Brody, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins, Diane Lane, Eric Kaldor, Kathleen Robertson
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery
The emergence reading

Hollywoodland keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing myth, truth, media, nostalgia, identity.

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