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Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Drama, Film-Noir | United States

Director: Billy Wilder

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Rating: 8.4/10

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SYNOPSIS

The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total madness.

Actors

Writer: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder

Producer: Charles Brackett

RUNTIME: 110 min

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