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The Arrangement. Elia Kazan's "The Arrangement" is one of those long, ponderous, star-filled "serious" films that were popular in the 1950s, before we began to value style more highly than the director's good intentions.
Summaries. An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown. Eddie is a very rich man who has everything he wants; money, family, success, but a car crash causes him to reevaluate the life he leads.
The Arrangement is a 1969 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan, based upon his 1967 novel of the same title. It tells the story of Evangelos Topouzoglou, a successful Los Angeles-area advertising executive of Greek-American extraction who goes by the professional name "Eddie Anderson” (his second pseudonym).
The highlight of an already great and extremely 60s film. Yes, it's about masculinity intersecting with capitalism intersecting with love (familial and romantic) but it's not a movie dissecting masculinity of the era while sacrificing the complexities of its female characters (ahem, Accident).
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- Elia Kazan
All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Zita Short InSession Film. Kerr finds a way to avoid engaging in cheap theatrics. She provides a nice counterbalance to the icy, sleek...
A Madison Avenue adman (Kirk Douglas) with a wife (Deborah Kerr) and mistress (Faye Dunaway) goes off the deep end of his meaningless life.
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- Drama
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