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  • Box Office Poison

  • Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
  • By: Tim Robey
  • Narrated by: Tim Robey
  • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins

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Box Office Poison

By: Tim Robey
Narrated by: Tim Robey
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Publisher's summary

'Hugely entertaining.' Prospect
'An instant classic.' Andrew O'Hagan, author of Caledonian Road
'Expertly researched.' Sight & Sound
'A rollicking, gossipy triumph.'
Daily Telegraph *****

'Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag . . .'

From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adaptations, Tim Robey's hugely entertaining Box Office Poison tells an alternative history of Hollywood, through a century of its most notable flops.

Freaks, Land of the Pharaohs, Dune, Speed 2, Catwoman, Cats: what can these films tell us about the Hollywood system, the public's appetite - or lack of it - and the circumstances that saw such box office disasters actually made? Away from the canon, here is the definitive take on these ill-fated, but essential celluloid failures.

©2024 Tim Robey (P)2024 Faber & Faber
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