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	Jack Nicholson	David Staebler
	Bruce Dern	Jason Staebler
	Ellen Burstyn	Sally
	Julia Anne Robinson	Jessica
	Scatman Crothers	Lewis
	Charles LaVine	Grandfather
	Arnold Williams	Rosko
	John P. Ryan	Surtees
	Sully Boyar	Lebowitz
	Josh Mostel	Frank
	William Pabst	Bidlack
	Garry Goodrow	Nervous Man
	Imogene Bliss	Magda
	Ann Thomas	Bambi
	Tom Overton	Spot Operator
	Maxwell 'Sonny' Goldberg	Sonny
	Van Kirksey	Messenger #1
	Tony King	Messenger #2
	Jerry Fujikawa	Agura
	Conrad Yama	Fujito
	Scott Howard	Auctioneer
	Henry Foehl	Auctioneer
	Frank Hatchett	Dancer
	Wyetta Turner	Dancer

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Director	Bob Rafelson
Writer	Jacob Brackman, Bob Rafelson
Producer	Steve Blauner, Bob Rafelson, Harold Schneider
Photography	László Kovács

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Part of: America Lost and Found - The BBS Story boxset

Like the rest of America, Hollywood was ripe for revolution in the late sixties. Cinema attendance was down; what had once worked seemed broken. Enter Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, who knew that what Hollywood needed was new audiences-namely, young people-and that meant cultivating new talent and new ideas. Fueled by money from their invention of the superstar TV pop group the Monkees, they set off on a film-industry journey that would lead them to form BBS Productions, a company that was also a community. The innovative films produced by this team between 1968 and 1972 are collected in this box set-works that now range from the iconic (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show) to the acclaimed (The King of Marvin Gardens) to the obscure (Head; Drive, He Said; A Safe Place), all created within the studio system but lifted right out of the countercultural id.

The King of Marvin Gardens
For his electrifying follow-up to the smash success Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson dug even deeper into the crushed dreams of wayward America. Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern play estranged siblings David and Jason, the former a depressive late-night-radio talk show host, the latter an extroverted con man; when Jason drags his younger brother to a dreary Atlantic City and into a real-estate scam, events spiral toward tragedy. The King of Marvin Gardens, also starring a brilliant Ellen Burstyn as Jason’s bitter aging beauty-queen squeeze, is one of the most devastating character studies of the seventies.

SPECIAL FEATURES
New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photogaphy László Kovács, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Selected-scene commentary featuring director Bob Rafelson
Reflections of a Philosopher King, a 2009 video piece with Rafelson and actress Ellen Burstyn
Afterthoughts, a 2002 interview with Rafelson, about the film, produced by Rafelson, Kovács, and actor Bruce Dern
Theatrical trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

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