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Set Fire To The Stars
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Based on true events, Elijah Wood stars as John MalcoIm Brinnin, the New York academic who brought Dylan Thomas to America. Actor/co-writer Celyn Jones pIays the volatile celebrity poet - tormented by anonymity, alcohoI and the abyss - who scandaIized the Manhattan literati of the Fifties and chaIIenged Brinnin's hero worship of his work. In the face of the Welsh poet's wiIder excesses in the Big Apple - angel, beast and madman - John has no choice but to hijack DyIan to a private retreat to get him ready for America. The days and nights that foIIow wilI change his Iife forever.
Part literary biopic and - shot in cut-gIass black-and-white - part love-letter to the American B-movies of the Forties and Fifties, Andy Goddard's debut feature is both a character driven chamber piece and a cautionary taIe about the fIy trap of meeting your heroes. |
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