‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood’s Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles, ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’, comedy movie is now being screened at theatres in Colombo and suburbs.
Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino as his ninth film, ‘Once Upon a Time’ stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, and Al Pacino. The movie is a modern fairy tale tribute to the final moments of Hollywood’s go. The film is set in 1969 Los Angeles, where an actor and his stunt double and longtime friend navigate the changing Hollywood film industry.
In February 1969, Hollywood actor Rick Dalton, former star of 1950s Western television series Bounty Law, fears his career is over. Casting agent Marvin Schwarzs advises him to make Spaghetti Westerns, which Dalton feels is beneath him. Dalton’s friend and stunt double, Cliff Booth – a war veteran who lives in a trailer with his pit bull, Brandy – drives Dalton around town because Dalton’s high-functioning alcoholism has resulted in too many DUIs. Booth struggles to find film work since the death of his wife, whom he is rumored to have murdered.
Actress Sharon Tate and her husband, director Roman Polanski, have moved into the house next door to Dalton’s. Dalton dreams of befriending the couple to restore his status. That night, Tate and Polanski join Jay Sebring at a celebrity-filled party at the Playboy Mansion.
