Part of Weekend Classics: Beat The Heat
Actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) gained fame and fortune by starring in a 1950s television Western, but is now struggling to find meaningful work in a Hollywood that he doesn’t recognize anymore. He spends most of his time drinking and palling around with Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), his easygoing best friend and longtime stunt double. Rick also happens to live next door to Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) — the filmmaker and the budding actress whose futures will forever be altered by members of the Manson Family. Directed by Quentin Tarantino.
“This is a tender, rapturous film, both joyous and melancholy, a reverie for a lost past and a door that opens to myriad imagined possibilities…. This is a welcoming picture, not an alienating one, an open door into a vanished world that still feels vital.” —Stephanie Zacharek, TIME “Quentin Tarantino promised ‘something original’ in his take on Hollywood life during the Manson Family slayings of the summer of 1969 and he delivers big time.” —Peter Howell, Toronto Star
