The Day of the Locust

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director John Schlesinger

Status Released

Release Date 1975-05-07

Storyline

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

"By train, by car, by bus, they came to Hollywood... in search of a dream."