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The Dying Gaul is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Craig Lucas, his feature directorial debut. The screenplay is based on his 1998 off-Broadway play of the same name, the title of which was derived from an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost Hellenistic sculpture.
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Nov 3, 2005 · A Hollywood producer offers to make a screenplay about a gay love affair heterosexual if the writer agrees to compromise. The movie explores themes of art, sex, and betrayal, but suffers from contrivance and melodrama.
Feb 2, 2005 · The Dying Gaul: Directed by Brian Huckeba. With Michael Buster, Aric Cushing. A vicious entertainment executive convinces a poor, down and out writer to sell his script and sacrifice his principles for a paycheck.
- Brian Huckeba
- Michael Buster, Aric Cushing
The Dying Gaul R 2005 1h 41m Drama LGBTQ+ List 51% 69 Reviews Tomatometer 52% 2,500+ Ratings Audience Score A gay writer (Peter Sarsgaard) befriends a Hollywood hotshot (Campbell Scott) and his...
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- Peter Sarsgaard
A powerful and seductive Hollywood mogul convinces an impoverished West Hollywood writer, whose lover has recently died of AIDS, to sell his autobiographical screenplay for big bucks. The writer, Robert, knows he'll have to make major changes in the script (like changing the sex of the dying lover).
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Lucas neatly evokes an LA world he knows all too well, where beautiful people live in glass houses, virtual private museums, catch-basins for the collective wisdom of Western Civilization, wisdom...
Nov 4, 2005 · The Dying Gaul. Patricia Clarkson (Good Night and Good Luck, Miracle, The Green Mile), Peter Sarsgaard (Shattered Glass, Key, Kinsey, Garden State) and Campbell Scott (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Saint Ralph) star in this critically acclaimed tale of lust, power, corruption, betrayal and revenge set in the seductive world of the Hollywood elite.