Producer Robert Evans life story is so extraordinary that even a Hollywood scriptwriter couldnt make it up. Spotted swimming in the Beverly Hills Hotel pool in 1956, he was, with no previous acting experience, signed up as a movie star.
Then he tried his hand at producing, making such classics as The Godfather, Rosemarys Baby, Love Story and Chinatown.
Friend to Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson, and lover to Ava Gardner, Ali McGraw, Grace Kelly and many others, Evans is one of Hollywoods true characters whose story works so well because it has the fall (McGraw left him for Steve McQueen, and he was busted for cocaine use), as well as the rise.
To illustrate such a tale, the directors use a collage of clips, headlines and animated photos so that even still pictures seem like moving ones. Meanwhile Evans distinctive voice punctuates each image with the occasionally fanciful but always riveting tale of his life.