Overview

Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies. This gonzo narrative, “an inkblot test of Mailer’s own subconscious” (Time), becomes something like a documentary on its own making when costar Rip Torn breaks the fourth wall in one of cinema’s most alarming on-screen outbursts.

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Cast

Norman Mailer

Norman T. Kingsley

Rip Torn

Raoul Rey O'Houlihan

Joy Bang

Joy Broom

Beverly Bentley

Chula Mae Kingsley

Penelope Milford

Lucy Saroyan

Lane Smith

José Torres

Hervé Villechaize

Ultra Violet

Herself

Harris Yulin