Set Fire to the Stars

Stylistically assured and tastefully appointed.
-- Mark Jenkins, NPR

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Set Fire to the Stars

Based on true events, Elijah Wood stars as John Malcolm Brinnin, the New York academic who brought Dylan Thomas to America. Actor/co-writer Celyn Jones plays the volatile celebrity poet – tormented by anonymity, alcohol and the abyss – who scandalized the Manhattan literati of the fifties and challenged Brinnin’s hero worship. In the face of the Welsh poet’s wilder excesses in the Big Apple – angel, beast and madman – John has no choice but to hijack Dylan to a private retreat to get him ready for America. The days and nights that follow will change his life forever. Part literary biopic and – shot in cut-glass black-and-white – part love-letter to the American B-movies of the forties and fifties, Andy Goddard’s debut feature is both a character-driven chamber piece and a cautionary tale about the fly trap of meeting your heroes.
Not Rated
Genre
Drama
Runtime
93
Language
English
Director
Andy Goddard
Cast
Elijah Wood, Shirley Henderson

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