A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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Movie1950·110 min
Sunset Boulevard
Directed by Billy Wilder
An Academy Award-winning drama film directed by Billy Wilder. Winner of 3 Academy Awards, with 8 additional nominations.
◈ CrunchScore
Top 1%
of all movies · weighted by audience size & source agreement
★ TMDB Audience Rating
8.3/10
3K ratings
About Sunset Boulevard
- Pacing
- Measured (4 of 9)
- Tone
- Dark (2 of 9)
- Intensity
- Intense (7 of 9)
- Complexity
- Layered (6 of 9)
- Humor
- Light-touch (4 of 9)
- Scale
- Intimate (1 of 9)
- Spirit
- Haunting (3 of 9)
- Texture
- Gritty, Unsettling
- Story Tags
- obsession, ambition hubris, isolation loneliness, mid century, showbiz media, los angeles, strangers forced together, femme fatale, anti hero, rise and fall, unreliable narrator, nonlinear flashback