I saw "Rules Don't Apply", starring Warren Beatty-Bulworth, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis_tv; Alden Ehrenreich-Hail,Caesar!, Beautiful Creatures; Lily Collins-The Mortal Instruments:City of Bones, Priest, and Yep, she is Phil's daughter and Matthew Broderick-Trainwreck, Godzilla_1998.
This is a story about the life of Howard Hughes and it is written and directed by Warren Beatty-Oh yeah, he also stars in it. Warren plays Howard as most people remember him, as being just a tad eccentric. Some people might have even said, a little on the crazy side. Anyway, this story covers the late 1950's until the early 1960's which would make the real Howard to be somewhere in his late 50's at that time-he was born in 1905 and died in 1976 so he was 71 when he died. Warren is older than the real Howard was when he died-Warren is 79. As far as the look and feel of the movie being authentic, it looked fine. Lily plays a young girl that comes to Hollywood to become a star. Besides his aviation interests, Howard also had a movie production company that put out a few films and actresses would flock to his studio to be in one of them. If they were hired, they were called contract actresses because they would be under a contract to do so many movies at a certain price per film. Alden and Matthew are drivers that would chauffeur the young actresses- and Howard-when needed. Howard believed that each girl should have a driver to take care of her but no driver was ever allowed to fraternize with the girls, under penalty of being fired. Lily also sings-did I mention that her father is Phil Collins?-the title song a couple of times in the movie and it's kind of a catchy tune. There are several good cameos: I remember seeing Martin Sheen, Candice Bergen, Oliver Platt, Ed Harris, Annette Bening and Alec Baldwin. It's rated "PG-13" for language, drug use and sexual content-no nudity- and has a running time of 2 hours & 6 minutes. It's not one that I would buy on DVD-once was enough-but if you can get past a 79 year old playing a 55 year old, you might enjoy it more than I did-that wasn't the only reason, but a part of it. It would be alright as a rental.
This is a story about the life of Howard Hughes and it is written and directed by Warren Beatty-Oh yeah, he also stars in it. Warren plays Howard as most people remember him, as being just a tad eccentric. Some people might have even said, a little on the crazy side. Anyway, this story covers the late 1950's until the early 1960's which would make the real Howard to be somewhere in his late 50's at that time-he was born in 1905 and died in 1976 so he was 71 when he died. Warren is older than the real Howard was when he died-Warren is 79. As far as the look and feel of the movie being authentic, it looked fine. Lily plays a young girl that comes to Hollywood to become a star. Besides his aviation interests, Howard also had a movie production company that put out a few films and actresses would flock to his studio to be in one of them. If they were hired, they were called contract actresses because they would be under a contract to do so many movies at a certain price per film. Alden and Matthew are drivers that would chauffeur the young actresses- and Howard-when needed. Howard believed that each girl should have a driver to take care of her but no driver was ever allowed to fraternize with the girls, under penalty of being fired. Lily also sings-did I mention that her father is Phil Collins?-the title song a couple of times in the movie and it's kind of a catchy tune. There are several good cameos: I remember seeing Martin Sheen, Candice Bergen, Oliver Platt, Ed Harris, Annette Bening and Alec Baldwin. It's rated "PG-13" for language, drug use and sexual content-no nudity- and has a running time of 2 hours & 6 minutes. It's not one that I would buy on DVD-once was enough-but if you can get past a 79 year old playing a 55 year old, you might enjoy it more than I did-that wasn't the only reason, but a part of it. It would be alright as a rental.