Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies. This gonzo narrative, “an inkblot test of Mailer’s own subconscious” (Time), becomes something like a documentary on its own making when costar Rip Torn breaks the fourth wall in one of cinema’s most alarming on-screen outbursts.
as Norman T. Kingsley
as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
as Joy Broom
as Chula Mae Kingsley
as Jeanne Cardigan
as Lazarus
as Luis
as Secret Service Chief
as The Producer
as Russian Delegate
as Adeline McCarthy
as Herself
