Dir. Douglas McGrath
58/300
This was a made for TV documentary about a very lucky guy. Jerry Weintraub is a legend is the movie producing world. This guy knows everyone in the business and then some.
I feel like this was a very interesting piece, because as many documentaries go, it could have gone a lot of ways. It reflected on his luck, and the celebrities he was and is associated with, but over all, the filmmaker managed to make it circle back around. It seemed that in his digging, the filmmaker found the true reason that a man that somehow finagled a deal to be Elvis and Frank Sinatra's promoter to making the Oceans trilogy. And as easy an out as it would have been for the filmmaker to chalk it up to "it's who you know" or "some people are just lucky", he finds that it was the way he was raised. He was told at an early age that to get what you want, you have to do whatever it takes to make money.
Anyway, an amazing story about an amazing man. If it comes up on HBO or whatever channels it's on, definitely worth a watch.
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