My wife and I watched this at home on BluRay from our public library. To me it is great entertainment, she rated it a bit lower.
The BD extras are interesting, apparently Warren Beatty has had the idea for many years, to write, direct, and star in this fictional story surrounding Howard Hughes and his many quirks. But always with a smile and a wink of the eye.
It starts in 1959, Hollywood, and ends in 1964. Young aspiring starlet from West Virginia Lily Collins as Marla Mabrey is one of several invited by Hughes to try out for movie roles. Her mom is played well by Annette Bening who, of course, in real life is married to Warren Beatty.
Marla's driver is Alden Ehrenreich as Frank Forbes, with a serious girlfriend back home south of L.A. And he is warned a sure way to get fired is to pursue one of the young starlets. Of course he and Marla become attracted to each other and begin a romance in secret. At one point when she is questioning what rules affect her he says, "To you rules don't apply", thus the title of the movie.
Meanwhile we see glimpses of various Hughes escapades, one of his crashes of an experimental plane, his building the Spruce Goose and its successful flight, his troubles with TWA, and finally a conference phone call where he needed to prove to the world that he was alive and sane.
Some will not like this movie for Beatty's portrayal of Howard Hughes, he was clearly doing it in a whimsical manner, but for me it totally worked, to me this movie is a complete success. It has a lot of other good actors including Matthew Broderick, Candice Bergen, Martin Sheen.
The BD extras are interesting, apparently Warren Beatty has had the idea for many years, to write, direct, and star in this fictional story surrounding Howard Hughes and his many quirks. But always with a smile and a wink of the eye.
It starts in 1959, Hollywood, and ends in 1964. Young aspiring starlet from West Virginia Lily Collins as Marla Mabrey is one of several invited by Hughes to try out for movie roles. Her mom is played well by Annette Bening who, of course, in real life is married to Warren Beatty.
Marla's driver is Alden Ehrenreich as Frank Forbes, with a serious girlfriend back home south of L.A. And he is warned a sure way to get fired is to pursue one of the young starlets. Of course he and Marla become attracted to each other and begin a romance in secret. At one point when she is questioning what rules affect her he says, "To you rules don't apply", thus the title of the movie.
Meanwhile we see glimpses of various Hughes escapades, one of his crashes of an experimental plane, his building the Spruce Goose and its successful flight, his troubles with TWA, and finally a conference phone call where he needed to prove to the world that he was alive and sane.
Some will not like this movie for Beatty's portrayal of Howard Hughes, he was clearly doing it in a whimsical manner, but for me it totally worked, to me this movie is a complete success. It has a lot of other good actors including Matthew Broderick, Candice Bergen, Martin Sheen.