Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.
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Get ready to have your eyes opened. Ashby is probably the least sung hero of the Hollywood greats, even while being one of the most influential. I haven’t seen near as many Ashby movies as I should, but this documentary makes you just want to bathe yourself in every minute of his thousands of reels of beautiful captured, honest, humanistic film. The anecdotes, the behind-the-scenes, the dialogues, and the great correspondences lively read by the great Ben Foster bring Hal back to life and give him the credit he deserves.