Top cast:Mary Fuller,Marc McDermott,Edward O'Connor
Director:Robert Zemeckis
Genre:War
Region:Egypt
Year:2001
Storyline:BackgroundAtlantic City(1981) is a sad, unsentimental, evocative and bleak character study by French New Wave director Louis Malle.Captivated, he complimented her on her remarkable exotic beauty and claimed he was being truthful (but not just to flatter her), using flowery and poetic prose:It""ll be the truth and nothing but the truth.The film""s production, the first of Kubrick""s films produced independently in England, was marked by:a long casting search for the proper ""Lolita"" (Kubrick decided upon blue-eyed blonde Sue Lyon, a fourteen-year-old television actress in her screen debut, and almost 16 by the time the film was released)the appointment of Nabokov to write the screenplay for his own lengthy novelKubrick""s rewriting (with co-producer James B.Martywas nominated for eight Academy Awards - and was awarded four - Best Picture!, Best Actor (character actor Ernest Borgnine in a role quite different from his menacing, sadistic villains or murderous ""heavies"" inFrom Here o Eternity (1953)andBad Day at Black Rock (1955)), Best Director (Delbert Mann for his debut film), and Best Screenplay (Paddy Chayefsky).