The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
Directed by Bob Rafelson
Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.
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The screenplay, which is heavy on stagey interpersonal conflict, was penned by former Esquire film critic Jacob Brackman, who has also worked as a song lyricist and coproduced Terence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978).