Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
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Directed by | Matt Tyrnauer |
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Starring | Scotty Bowers |
Music by | Jane Antonia Cornish |
Cinematography | Chris J. Dapkins |
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Distributed by | Greenwich Entertainment |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $418,660[1] |
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood is a 2017 American documentary film about the life of Scotty Bowers, who acted as a pimp in Hollywood from the 1940s to 80s. It was produced and directed by Matt Tyrnauer, a Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine.[2] The film premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival[3] and is scheduled for theatrical release on July 27, 2018.[4]
Reception
On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 91% based on 55 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood offers plenty of prurient thrills for film fans, but beyond the gossip lies a poignantly illuminating look at decades of sexual mores."[5] On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a normalized score of 67 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[6]
In his review for The Hollywood Reporter, Todd McCarthy commented: "What could have been a merely sensationalistic exposé of the private lives of then-closeted screen luminaries instead emerges, in the hands of documentarian Matt Tyrnauer as a nicely filled-out look at different eras, one secrecy-ridden and dedicated to the preservation of illusion, the other wide open and blasé about personal predilections."[7]
References
- ↑ "Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
- ↑ Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood Altimeter Films
- ↑ "Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood". www.tiff.net. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
- ↑ Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood | Greenwich Entertainment, retrieved 2018-07-17
- ↑ "Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
- ↑ "Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
- ↑ McCarthy, Todd (September 9, 2017). "Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 13, 2018.