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The Dying Gaul (2005)
Director: Craig Lucas
Movie review
From Time Out New York
Written after a sour moviemaking experience with Prelude to a Kiss, Craig Lucas's 1998 play The Dying Gaul was a poison-pen letter to Hollywood and its ability to drain creative talent dry. Six years later, Lucas's directorial debut still comes off like a flipped bird to industry brass, particularly with its sharply satiric portraits of a closeted bisexual executive (Scott) and a brilliant gay writer (Sarsgaard), whose semiautobiographical script the studio suit wants to buy. Unfortunately, the film also duplicates the play's mélange of muddy moral quandaries and degenerates into discordant white noise.Author: DF
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Cast & crew
Director: Craig Lucas
Producer: Campbell Scott, Lisa Zimble, George Van Buskirk
Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard, Campbell Scott, Ryan Miller, Robin Bartlett full cast
Duration: 101 mins
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