Rules Don't Apply (2016) on Netflix
PG-1320162h 7mComedyDramaRomance
Marla Mabrey arrives in Los Angeles on a contract with Howard Hughes, awaiting a screen test. Her driver Frank Forbes has a fiancée, and Hughes forbids his staff to court actresses.
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Plot summary
In 1958, Marla Mabrey, a Baptist beauty queen from a small town, comes to Los Angeles with her strict mother Lucy under a contract with Howard Hughes' studio, paid four hundred dollars a week while she waits for a screen test. Frank Forbes, who meets them at the airport, becomes her regular driver, taking her to the singing and dancing lessons arranged for Hughes' contract starlets. Frank is a devout Methodist engaged to his childhood sweetheart, and Levar Mathis, who works for Hughes, keeps reminding him that staff and actresses are not to grow close. With Lucy back in Virginia, Frank and Marla spend more time together, and Hughes calls Marla to a private meeting to hear about her ambitions.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rules Don't Apply (2016)
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- Warren Beatty spent more than 40 years trying to make a Howard Hughes film, a fascination that began when he spotted the reclusive billionaire in a hotel lobby in the early 1970s.
- Rules Don't Apply grossed $1.6 million in its opening weekend and set records as the worst Thanksgiving debut ever for a wide release and the sixth worst opening ever for a film playing in more than 2,000 theaters.
- Arnon Milchan and Regency Enterprises sued Warren Beatty for $18 million over unpaid promotion losses, and an investment group including Brett Ratner, Ron Burkle and Steve Bing counter-sued for $50 million, blaming Regency's under-promotion for the film's disastrous box office.
- Felicity Jones was cast as the female lead in November 2011 but dropped out because of the production delays, and Justin Timberlake and Alden Ehrenreich were both up for the male lead.
