Film

The King of Marvin Gardens 1972

Drama 103 min R

Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.

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Character

Prestige, contemplative, spare and character-led.

unpretentiousprestige
contemplativerelentless
spare

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