The American Dreamer

Documentary that shows how the actor and director Dennis Hopper directed in 1971 'The Last Movie', which became a box office failure and authentic prompting the filmmaker was a long time away from the Hollywood establishment. Directed by L. M. Kit Carson and Lawrence Schiller, the documentary gets behind the camera to show how Hopper rode the film, quite a laborious task because it was a very personal project, whose resounding failure caused an emotional breakdown for the artist. Hopper in 'The Last Movie' created a cinematic essay on the Hollywood commercial cinema and who married more with the "avant-garde" own European and Asian cinema. existential and professional dilemmas showing this documentary tries to reflect the production process of the cult film of Dennis Hopper.