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Hal

Hal (2018)★ 7.2/10

US · 90 min · January 22, 2018

  • Documentary
  • Biography

Directed by: Amy Scott

Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude (1971), Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Francis Ford Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.

Directed by

Amy Scott

Cast & crew

Hal AshbySelf (archiveFootage)Norman JewisonSelfHaskell WexlerSelfLouis Gossett Jr.SelfPablo FerroSelfCharles MulvehillSelfBeau BridgesSelfLee GrantSelfAlexander PayneSelfJon VoightSelfNick Dawsonself, author of 'Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel'Judd ApatowSelfBud CortSelf (archiveFootage)Ruth GordonSelf (archiveFootage)Buddy Joe HookerSelfCat StevensSelfDavid O. RussellSelfElliot MintzSelf (archiveFootage) (voice)Jack NicholsonSelf (archiveFootage) (voice)Robert TowneSelfRobert C. JonesSelfJoan MarshallSelf (archiveFootage)Dianne SchroederSelfGrif GriffisSelfCaleb DeschanelSelfTony BillSelfAllison AndersSelfLeigh McManusSelfRichard NixonSelf (archiveFootage)Jane FondaSelfRon KovicSelf (archiveFootage)Bruce GilbertSelfLisa CholodenkoSelfJeff WexlerSelfBruce DernSelf (archiveFootage)Peter SellersSelf (archiveFootage)Adam McKaySelfRonald ReaganSelf (archiveFootage)Rick PadillaSelfAl SchwartzSelfJeff BridgesSelfRosanna ArquetteSelfMark DamonSelf (archiveFootage) (voice)Ben FosterHal Ashby (voice)Lauren BacallSelf (uncredited) (archiveFootage)Edith EvansSelf (uncredited) (archiveFootage)Dustin HoffmanSelf (uncredited) (archiveFootage)Ginger RogersSelf (uncredited) (archiveFootage)Donald SutherlandSelf (uncredited) (archiveFootage)