Play It as It Lays
Maria's life was a search for the ultimate answer even after she found there was none.
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- Drama
Overview
Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship proves to be fleeting amidst the empty decadence of Hollywood.
Keywords
- mental illness
- lgbt
- fame
- film in film
- mental institution
- alienation
- drug abuse
- mental breakdown
- marital tensions
- parental alienation
- lavender marriage
- forced abortion
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 19, 1972
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures,F.P. Productions
- Cast
- Tracy Morgan,Roger Ewing,Eddie Firestone,Severn Darden,John Finnegan,Mitzi Hoag,Norman Foster,Tammy Grimes,Adam Roarke,Ruth Fordand 12 more
- Director
- Frank Perry
- Producer
- Dominick Dunne,Frank Perry
- Cinematography
- Jordan Cronenweth
- Budget
- $1,000,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0069098