The Day of the Locust

Director: John Schlesinger

"By train, by car, by bus, they came to Hollywood... in search of a dream."

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.