Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 03/10/06 (Limited) 03/24/06 Home Video 07/25/06 MPAA Rating Rated R for some sexuality, nudity and language Running Time 1 hour 57 minutes Genre Drama Director/Writer Robert Towne Cast Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Justin Kirk, Donald Sutherland, Dame Eileen Atkins, Idina Menzel Studio Paramount Classics |
ASK THE DUST
SYNOPSIS
Academy Award -winner Robert Towne
("Chinatown," "Tequila Sunrise") writes and directs
"Ask the Dust," set under the brutally sunny skies of
Depression-era Los Angeles. Based on novelist
John Fante's masterpiece. Towne's interpretation
of Ask the Dusk focuses on a city exotic and vulgar,
glamorous and raunchy - a place of heat and dust.
Full of imports - palm trees from Egypt and people
from everywhere in search of health and wealth,
fame and fortune - L.A. is the city of first and last
resort, where all dreams are supposed to come
true. So it is for Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell), a son
of Italian immigrants who dreams of becoming a
famous novelist and marrying a beautiful blonde,
and Camilla Lopez (Sallma Hayek), a Mexican who
longs to marry a WASP and shed her last name. In a
time when relations between Anglos and people of
Mexican descent hang by tattered threads, Bandini
and Camilla collide with one another, fighting the city
and themselves to make their dreams come true.
--© Paramount Classics
Academy Award -winner Robert Towne
("Chinatown," "Tequila Sunrise") writes and directs
"Ask the Dust," set under the brutally sunny skies of
Depression-era Los Angeles. Based on novelist
John Fante's masterpiece. Towne's interpretation
of Ask the Dusk focuses on a city exotic and vulgar,
glamorous and raunchy - a place of heat and dust.
Full of imports - palm trees from Egypt and people
from everywhere in search of health and wealth,
fame and fortune - L.A. is the city of first and last
resort, where all dreams are supposed to come
true. So it is for Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell), a son
of Italian immigrants who dreams of becoming a
famous novelist and marrying a beautiful blonde,
and Camilla Lopez (Sallma Hayek), a Mexican who
longs to marry a WASP and shed her last name. In a
time when relations between Anglos and people of
Mexican descent hang by tattered threads, Bandini
and Camilla collide with one another, fighting the city
and themselves to make their dreams come true.
--© Paramount Classics
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