Frank and Ava

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• Genre(s): Drama
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Michael Oblowitz
• Cast(s): Rico Simonini, Emily Elicia Low, Harry Dean Stanton, Eric Roberts, Lukas Haas See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 50min
• Award(s): LAIFF October 2017 (Won)
  Grand Jury Prize 2018 (Nominated) Awards List
• Similar To: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War, Song Sung Blue
• Story:
  Frank & Ava joins the wild ride of the tempestuous relationship between icons, Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner showing their multi-year love affair and subsequent marriage. In 1949, a downcast Frank, his career on the wane because of a faltering voice, a failing marriage, and a tarnished off-screen reputation falls in love with rising star, Ava, by consensus, the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. While their love was incandescent, they were hapless as a couple; often pursued by reporters such as Hedda Hopper who played them off against each other in the tabloids; casting Frank as an adulterer and Ava as a home wrecker while Frank!s wife, Nancy Barbato, refused to grant him a divorce. Once married in 1951 the tabloids then paraded their sorted affairs whenever their careers separated them. (Often it was Ava who went off to Europe or Africa to make a movie, leaving Frank behind). In the meantime, Frank, career hanging by a thread, is desperately trying to land the acting job that he ...
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