The Majestic
Year | 2001 |
Starring | David Ogden Stiers, Hal Holbrook, Jim Carrey, Laurie Holden, Martin Landau |
Director(s) | Frank Darabont |
Rating | PG |
Genre(s) | Drama, Romance |
Runtime | 152 min |
Peter Appleton is an ambitious young screenwriter working for HHS Studios during Hollywood’s Golden Age, 1951 in particular. “Ashes to Ashes” is about to be released, and he’s dating the attractive movie star, Sandra Sinclair. Just when everything seems to be going his way, it is discovered he (unwittingly) attended a Communist meeting during college when pulled there by his girlfriend at the time, and thus heavy suspicion settles over him and he’ll have to stand before Congress.