
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.
Cast

Hal Ashby
Self (archive footage)

Jane Fonda
Self

Jon Voight
Self

Lee Grant
Self

Dustin Hoffman
Self

Rosanna Arquette
Self

Jeff Bridges
Self

Allison Anders
Self

John C. Reilly
Self

Judd Apatow
Self

David O. Russell
Self

Adam McKay
Self

Beau Bridges
Self

Alexander Payne
Self

Caleb Deschanel
Self

Norman Jewison
Self

Lisa Cholodenko
Self

Buddy Joe Hooker
Self

Haskell Wexler
Self

Lynn Stalmaster
Self

Pablo Ferro
Self
Jeff Wexler
Self
Bruce Gilbert
Self
Charles Mulvehill
Self
Robert C. Jones
Self
Grif Griffis
Self
Dianne Schroeder
Self
Al Schwartz
Self

Cat Stevens
Self

Louis Gossett Jr.
Self

Melinda Dillon
Self (archive footage)
Crew
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