Play It as It Lays

Play It as It Lays

1972
★★★☆☆ 5.9/10
⏱️ 99 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 EN
Drama
Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship proves to be fleeting amidst the empty decadence of Hollywood.

Crew

Director
Frank Perry
Writer
Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne
Producer
Dominick Dunne, Frank Perry

Production

Universal Pictures, F.P. Productions

Keywords

drug abusemental breakdownalienationfilm in filmfamemental institutionmental illnesslgbtforced abortionmarital tensions