Hail, Caesar!
- Director: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen
- Writer: Joel Coen; Ethan Coen
- Producer: Tim Bevan; Ethan Coen
CGiii Comment
Love 'em or loathe 'em, the Coen brothers always deliver a quality product. Hail, Caesar! oozes quality, it would be hard not to...with this litany of Hollywood A-listers...
But...does it cut-the-mustard?
The answer is an indefatigable yes...and, a deflating no.
Some scenes work, some don't. It's all very episodic...and, as a whole, it doesn't come together.
Definitely camp, there's a whiff of homosexuality (it's Hollywood, darlings!) and the gayest sailor-scene ever committed to film.
Definitely entertaining - with some heady highs and frequent lows...usually involving Channing Tatum.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Hail Caesar! Follows a day in the life of Eddie Mannix, a Hollywood fixer for Capitol Pictures in the 1950s, who cleans up and solves problems for big names and stars in the industry. But when studio star Baird Whitlock disappears, Mannix has to deal with more than just the fix.
Cast & Characters
Josh Brolin as Eddie Mannix;
George Clooney as Baird Whitlock;
Alden Ehrenreich as Hobie Doyle;
Ralph Fiennes as Laurence Laurentz;
Scarlett Johansson as DeeAnna Moran;
Tilda Swinton as Thora Thacker / Thessaly Thacker;
Frances McDormand as C. C. Calhoun;
Channing Tatum as Burt Gurney;
Jonah Hill as Joseph Silverman;
Veronica Osorio as Carlotta Valdez;
Heather Goldenhersh as Natalie;
Alison Pill as Mrs. Mannix;
Max Baker as Head Communist Writer;
Fisher Stevens as Communist Writer #1;
Patrick Fischler as Communist Writer #2