The Kid Stays in the Picture

A pretty good advert for Evans’ book; this of course holds inherent interest and appeal if you have any interest at all in New Hollywood, and its waves that would start crashing as the 70s became the 80s; Evans is a terrific (if sometimes self-serving) story-teller, and there are some great yarns here, especially around the likes of Farrow, Sinatra, Nicholson, and MacGraw. Having not read the book (or heard Evans’ audiobook), I feel we are only getting the barebones abridged version, and Burstein and Morgan are not skilful enough to justify this as a film, at least in its current form. It’s still largely engaging if you’re already interested in the subject.