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Mood:
- CleverSentimental
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Plot:
- Actor's LifeTragic HeroRising To StardomCelebrity CultureFilmmakingAmbitionArtists and ShowbizLifestyle more...
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Genres:
- Drama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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Place:
- HollywoodUSA
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Based on:
- Biography
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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James Dean, 2001
English
USA
Profile of James Dean
The mood of James Dean is clever and sentimental. The plot centers around a tragic hero, the life of an actor, and rising to stardom. It is a drama movie. In approach, James Dean is serious and realistic. The setting is Hollywood. It happens in the 1950s. James Dean is drawn from a biography.
Summary of James Dean
The brief, but mythical, life and career of film acting legend James Dean is dramatized in this biographical 2001 feature, originally produced for cable television. Dean is portrayed here as a hard worker and wild man, yet a sensitive lost soul whose own turbulent life mirrored the roles he took on his short, but greatly influential career. Dean is played by James Franco under the direction of Hollywood veteran Mark Rydell, a friend of Dean during his life. Rydell's insights provide an especially insightful look at studio politics and procedure in the 1950s.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 4 August 2001 |
| Runtime: | 120 min |
Cast and Crew
as James Dean / Narrator
as Winton Dean
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