Peter Bogdanovich directs this comedy of manners set in 1920s California. The film is a fictionalised account of the death of silent film producer Thomas Ince, who died mysteriously following a holiday with media mogul William Randolph Hearst and Hearst's lover, starlet Marion Davies. Aboard Hearst's yacht as it sets sail from San Pedro harbour is a small, distinguished group of passengers including the wildly talented but self-absorbed and lascivious Charlie Chaplin, sardonic novelist Elinor Glyn, gossip columnist and film critic Louella Parsons, and pioneering fimmaker Thomas Ince. Witty repartee, deceit and deception follow as the various intrigues and complicated schemings of the passengers unfold.

Genre Comedy

Directed by Peter Bogdanovich

Written by Steven Peros

Based on the book by Steven Peros

Starring Kirsten Dunst, Eddie Izzard, Cary Elwes, Jennifer Tilly,

Joanna Lumley, Edward Herrmann