Story Line
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
“Dream dangerously.”
Top Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jay Gatsby
Tobey Maguire
Nick Carraway
Carey Mulligan
Daisy Buchanan
Joel Edgerton
Tom Buchanan
Elizabeth Debicki
Jordan Baker
Isla Fisher
Myrtle Wilson
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Rating
7.4/ 10
Release Date
2013-05-09
Runtime
2h 23m
Genres
DramaRomance
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User Reviews (5)
Andres Gomez
2.5/10
•6/28/2013Baz Luhrmann repeats what he did with Rome + Juliet and creates a horrible moster full of FX and exaggeration.
Still, the cast performs well.
anthonyryan1
8/10
•8/21/2013An over the top portrayal of the classic novel, while at times excessive and tasteless, it truly hits home with the novels original critique on the excess of the time. The cast was **excellent**, the movie stayed true to the novel in all the most imp...
GenerationofSwine
2/10
•1/10/2023See I don't know how to review this because I came into it hating the novel, and it's 2022, it took me over a decade to finally say "fine I'll watch the movie."
And unfortunately they didn't improve things. It's still, well, pretentious. It's stil...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•4/16/2024To be fair to Baz Luhrmann, this is actually quite a difficult story to adapt for the big screen. On the face of it, there are many contradictions right from the start (not least that our relatively normal narrator - trader "Nick" (Tobey Maguire) liv...