Cast: Adam McKay, Alexander Payne, Allison Anders, Beau Bridges, Caleb Deschanel, David O. Russell, Dustin Hoffman
Summary
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.