Viewed: 22 January 2003
Directed by: Bill Condon
Listed in: Movies, Netflix

Not at all what I expected. Ian Mckellen plays film director James Whale, most famous for Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. Coming back from the hospital he is looking for a return to a time when the past didn’t haunt him. Brenden Fraiser is a landscaper to comes to befriend Whale and the friendship leads them to appraise both there lives. This is set against the backdrop of aging Hollywood in the sixties, the Hollywood of the thirties.