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Synopsis: 'It's Monopoly out there'. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island - asking him to believe in yet another of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real life reduced to radio drama.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Bob Rafelson
Production: Sony Pictures Entertainment
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
R
Year:
1972
103 min
282 Views


that I should only talk to Lewis.

Gettin' to Lewis is known

to entail additional waiting time.

Well, Jason said that if Lewis knows -

Right there, my boy,

is an accurate summarization.

Jason says and Lewis knows.

[Laughing]

Jason says and Lewis knows.

You want to change seats,

though, go right ahead.

[Chuckling]

Jason says and Lewis -

- [Man Speaking, Indistinct]

- [Rings Once]

[Laughing]

[Door Closes]

- Wave your hands!

- [Chattering]

- Wave your hands!

- [Chattering]

[Cheering]

[Woman]

Gertrude, wait for me!

Wait! Wait for me, Gertrude!

Wait for me!

Well, you already met Sally. Jessica.

Jessica!

This is David.

Hi.

Hello.

There it is, Davey.

It's supposed to be the oldest and finest

accommodations on the boardwalk.

Come on, darlin'. Come on, Jess.

Woodrow Wilson used to stay here.

Did you know that?

Did you know he used to live

up there in Princeton?

Anyway, the island's called Tiki.

It's just seven miles

off the coast of Honolulu.

It's the most fantastic place

I ever saw in my life. Sally?

- Yes, dear?

- Did you remember to pick up

that mail this morning?

[Sally]

I sent Jessie for it.

[Piano, Striking Random Notes]

[Continues]

[Sighs]

Jesus, it's really gonna be good

to talk island again.

Do you know that we haven't

talked island in years?

We haven't talked anything in years.

Well, I know,

but that's what I'm tryin' to get here...

is the Staebler Brothers' renaissance.

I didn't forget, David.

[Piano, Classical]

- How are you tonight?

- Trs bien, monsieur.

- Oh.

- [Continues]

[Chuckling]

Sally, you know, we're not

paying electricity here.

- You can leave some lights burning.

- I did, Jason.

- The bulbs must have blown.

- The last time we had candles.

- How's about some candles?

- Yeah!

- Isnt this romantic?

- Yeah, I love it.

I'm for gettin' violins up here.

Maybe it's the fuse.

I'll call downstairs.

May I talk to Mr. Seymour, please?

- Hey, Sal, bring one of those candles in here.

- Okay.

- I can't see to piss.

- [Chuckling]

Mr. Seymour,

this is Jason Staebler's secretary.

We have no lights in 914.

Would you?

- Please, as soon as possible.

- No, no, no "soon as possible."

Tell the man I want these lights

Thank you very much.

[Chuckles]

[Chuckles]

[Pops Lips]

Blowout.

Black Horse Pike,

right outside Absecon.

This lady, Lucy - real upset...

because she's afraid that

somebody's gonna find us together.

I got nothin' with Lucy.

I don't have the key to Shirley's trunk.

I drive her car all the time,

whenever I want to go someplace...

but I never needed

to get into her trunk before.

[Chuckling]

Now, I'm lookin' around.

Crowbar I find on the floor - backseat.

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Jacob Brackman

Jacob Brackman (born 1943) is an American journalist, writer, and musical lyricist. After graduating from Harvard University in 1965, he went to work for Newsweek as a journalist. He remained there for six months and was then hired by The New Yorker. He subsequently worked as a film critic at Esquire magazine from 1969 until 1972. He met Carly Simon in 1968 when they were both working as counselors at a summer camp in the Berkshires. The two became close friends. Most of Simon's albums include one or two songs co-written with Brackman; typically, Simon writes the music and Brackman writes the lyrics. Among the dozens of songs they have written together are the top ten hits, "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" (1971) and "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" (1974), both of which were sung by Simon. The lyrics to the Broadway musical King of Hearts were also written by Brackman, and so, too, were the screenplays for The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) and Times Square (1980). He has also collaborated musically with James Taylor, Steve Winwood, Dr. John, Fred Astaire, Michel Polnareff and Dionne Warwick. He was the executive producer for the acclaimed Terrence Malick film, Days of Heaven (1978). He married the late Mindy Jostyn, and co-authored the lyrics on her CDs. Jacob Brackman has been an influence to many other artists, including Welsh rock group the Manic Street Preachers. See article on the film Times Square for more. more…

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