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1. #AMAZON PILOTS NUMBERLYS MOVIE#
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Several plot lines that he’s elevated or created with a series pickup in mind, involving Nazis and a Hooverville across from the studio lot, feel distinctly unpromising.

#AMAZON PILOTS NUMBERLYS MOVIE#

Ray has taken Fitzgerald’s last work - in which his love and hate for the movie business remain unresolved, while jostling for space with a death-obsessed romance - and reimagined it as a sprightly but lamentably pedestrian showbiz melodrama. Putting Fitzgerald on screen is a thankless business - his infinitely delicate realism withers in the light, and if you can’t capture the texture of his prose, there’s really no point. Scott Fitzgerald described Monroe Stahr, the Hollywood-producer protagonist of his unfinished novel “The Last Tycoon,” as one of “not half a dozen men” who could “keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.” In adaptation, written and directed by Billy Ray, Stahr is an upstanding guy who can charm a starlet and look good in a dinner jacket - he’s one of thousands. Must it be called “interesting”? Well, O.K.

The pilot effectively conveys the various textures of the relationships among the old friends, which are sometimes fraught and sometimes the only source of peace in their lives. Ebert, create a comparable specificity, demonstrating their own spin on the efficient loathing of a failing New York marriage. But this cast’s chemistry and performances, particularly from Ms. Jessica Paré (“Mad Men”) and David Krumholtz (“Numbers”) also star as two other members of the clique who marry each other she, the glamorous and theatrical Ash, and he the wildly successful cartoonist Figman.Īdapting a novel for television means losing some of the precision of the characters’ interior life. Jules is like many arch heroines, equal parts bombast and fragility, shaken and poured over ice, or in her case, poured over a husband (Gabriel Ebert) who is decidedly a Boring. Lauren Ambrose (“Six Feet Under”) stars as Jules, who as an adult still feels like a lucky guest at the Interestings’ party, even though she’s as enmeshed as any of them. But on the other, pity the stunted grown-up still trying to live up to a teenager’s idea of greatness. ‘The Interestings’īased on the 2013 novel by Meg Wolitzer, “The Interestings” bounces between the teenage and adult years of a group of friends who meet at an arts summer camp and christen - or is it curse? - themselves “the Interestings.” On the one hand, that youthful self-absorption allows some members to achieve extraordinary creative success. Our TV critics look at a few from the latest crop. Since 2013, Amazon has released a batch of original TV pilots several times a year for the public to review and vote on.