The King of Marvin Gardens

1972

Action / Drama

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 71% · 31 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 6462 6.5K

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Director

Bob Rafelson Photo
Bob Rafelson

Top cast

Jack Nicholson Photo
Jack Nicholson as David Staebler
John P. Ryan Photo
John P. Ryan as Surtees
Garry Goodrow Photo
Garry Goodrow as Nervous Man
Ellen Burstyn Photo
Ellen Burstyn as Sally
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845.46 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds ...
1.62 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by zetes 7 / 10

Has some great pieces, but they don't add up

Bob Rafelson's followup to Five Easy Pieces. It's a fascinating film that really does not succeed. Jack Nicholson stars as a late night radio personality who receives a call from his estranged brother (Bruce Dern) to bail him out of jail in Atlantic City. After he does so, Dern invites him in on a major real estate deal, buying up a small island in Hawaii. There's not much plot from there. The film progresses into a series of vignettes whose relation is often difficult to determine. Basically, Nicholson, Dern and Dern's two girlfriends, Ellen Burstyn and Julia Anne Robinson, hang around Atlantic City doing weird stuff. Each scene is entertaining enough by itself, but the film doesn't really build, climaxes with a typical 70s bummer and, sort of like Five Easy Pieces, ends on an evocative bit. Here, though, it doesn't have any real meaning. Everything about it seems like a really good movie, but it just doesn't add up to be anything in particular.
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Reviewed by smatysia 5 / 10

There's no there there.

I read the reviews and comments that seem to indicate a deep and insightful movie. I guess I am just a simpleton, but I simply don't get it. It seems a quiet character study type of film. It contrasts the two brothers, played very well by Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern, one as the shady hustler, and one as a semi-realist. It contrasts the two women, also played very well by Ellen Burstyn and Julia Ann Robinson, one of them nearing the end of her time wielding sexual power over men, and the other, the step-daughter, just coming into her time. It seems to compare the bleak Atlantic City winter with the age of the older woman, and the dreams of the older brother. And what's up with all the black gangsters? No, I just don't get it.

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