Hail, Caesar

Released: February 5, 2016

Starring: Josh Brolin as Eddie Mannix
George Clooney as Baird Whitlock
Scarlett Johansson as Deeanna Morgan
Tilda Swenton as Thora/Thessaly Hacker

Directed, Written, and Edited by Ethan and Joel Coen





Hollywood in the 1950's is not as easy as the movies make it out to be. No one knows this more than Eddie Mannix, a Capitol Studios Fixer in the golden Days of Hollywood. Eddie's job is to help make the studio's stars look, and behave, as great as they do in the movies. During one of the biggest movie shoot they have ever produced, Hail, Caesar!, the star goes missing. On top of all of that the rest of the studio's stars lived are going crazy too! Between a secretly pregnant star, actors doing different roles than normal, a gossip columnist lurking around the set, and Actors having secret meetings regarding the Communist Party, Eddie must decide if he would like to keep his job or take a new "standard" job that he has been offered.




As I have stated before I am a lover of all thing early Hollywood. So, when I found out that this film was coming out, and the time period it was set in, I was really excited to see the film. However, what I was not expecting was how funny this film turned out to be! I mean you have Channing Tatum tap dancing, and George Clooney getting slapped in the face. However, when I went to go and see that movie I realized that the Coen Brothers made a huge spoof of old Hollywood in that of it's self. The movie is about the making of a fake movie called "Hail, Caesar". However, that movie is really the plot like of the movie Ben-Hur that was a real movie made in the 1950's-1960's. They made fun of everyone and everything. From the fake adoption that Loretta Young did, to the life of the fixer himself E.J. Mannix. Mannix was a fixer for MGM back in those days and tried to keep all the stars from making a fool of themselves, and do discreetly. I would have to say if you just want a good laugh you need to see this movie, However, if you love old Hollywood and know some of it history this movie is going to be way funnier to you than to the average movie goer!