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   English. Budget. $1 million [1] The King of Marvin Gardens is a 1972 American drama film. It stars Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn and Scatman Crothers. It is one of several collaborations between Nicholson and director Bob Rafelson. The majority of the film is set in a wintry Atlantic City, New Jersey, with cinematography by László ...

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   Oct 10, 2024 · Ensconced at an aging boardwalk hotel once favored by Woodrow Wilson, Jason boasts of 96%-finalized deals, dines over lobster with potential Japanese investors, cavorts with his girlfriend (Ellen Burstyn) and her squirt gun-wielding stepdaughter (Julia Ann Robinson, stunning in her only major role), and throws around the name of a local ...

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   Sep 15, 2012 · Jacob Brackman, then a 28-year-old magazine writer, is credited with the script for Marvin Gardens, but Rafelson, a former radio monologist himself, provided substantial content.

4. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › the-king-of-marvinThe King of Marvin Gardens movie review (1972) | Roger Ebert

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   There’s the Boardwalk, of course, and Marvin Gardens itself; but there are also Jason’s attempts to buy a hotel, and the fact that he’s in jail when we first meet him. This stuff is worked in quietly enough by Jacob Brackman’s script, however, that it doesn’t really distract.

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   Mar 15, 2013 · The film's most mesmerizing shot is basic, placing Jason before a bulky velvet curtain that has seen better days in his hotel room which evokes a fading, desperate comedian rapping to an indifferent crowd. It's the whole movie in a nutshell - eternal paradise is just a pitch made from an outdated stage.

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   Maintaining a suite in the plush but decadent Essex-Charleton Hotel, the four clash under the anxious tension of waiting. It turns out that Jason is only serving as a front man for a black syndicate that makes its money in drugs.

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   Does Jason get a hotel in Marvin Gardens?

   • There’s the Boardwalk, of course, and Marvin Gardens itself; but there are also Jason’s attempts to buy a hotel, and the fact that he’s in jail when we first meet him. This stuff is worked in quietly enough by Jacob Brackman’s script, however, that it doesn’t really distract.

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   Is the king of Marvin Gardens a good movie?

   • Bob Rafelson’s “The King of Marvin Gardens” is a perversely satisfying movie, it works after going out of its way not to, and a very eccentric one. It backs into its real subject in much the same way that “ Five Easy Pieces “, Rafelson’s previous film, did.

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   Where was King of Marvin Gardens filmed?

   • The King of Marvin Gardens was shot almost entirely on location in Atlantic City in the winter months of 1972. It is therefore of considerable historical significance as a visual record of the very last days of the city's "classic era" resort architecture.

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   Why does Jason go to Atlantic City?

   • After a long silence, Jason himself calls his brother and tells him to hustle down to Atlantic City because there are big deals cooking. They’re going to buy an island near Hawaii and develop it into a resort. Sure.

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   Is Jason living with a blonde?

   • Jason is living with a blonde on the far side of the hill (Ellen Burstyn) and her stepdaughter, a blonde coming up fast on this side (Julia Anne Robinson). A great deal of the movie is about the unacknowledged sexual competition between the two women, but this (like a few other things) becomes important only gradually.

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   How does Jason's plan affect David's life?

   • Tensions grow among the four as Jason seeks unsuccessfully to involve a Japanese syndicate of investors in his plans. The skeptical David has no faith in Jason's plan, while Jason chides David for wallowing in his dark, lonely depressed life.

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   Apr 10, 2001 · Taking up residence in one of the decaying palatial hotels along the boardwalk, Jason reveals to David his scheme to acquire a tiny Pacific island called Tiki, with the purpose of developing an opulent offshore gambling paradise.