Maidstone (1971) — drama film. Directed by Norman Mailer. Starring Norman Mailer, Rip Torn, Paul Austin, Joy Bang. This page maps 4 characters and 4 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A filmmaker's presidential campaign, sexual production, family tensions, and staged violence collapse the boundary between documentary reality and fiction.
Drama · 4.2/10 · 106 min · 1971
Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies. This gonzo narrative, “an inkblot test of Mailer’s own subconscious” (Time), becomes something like a documentary on its own making when costar Rip Torn breaks the fourth wall in one of cinema’s most alarming on-screen outbursts.
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