The Great Gatsby

TV Movie
2000
1h 30m

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Mira Sorvino, Paul Rudd, and Toby Stephens in The Great Gatsby (2000)

Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married cousin Daisy Buchanan and her former love, nouveau riche Jay Gatsby.Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married cousin Daisy Buchanan and her former love, nouveau riche Jay Gatsby.Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married cousin Daisy Buchanan and her former love, nouveau riche Jay Gatsby.

Director
- Robert Markowitz
Writers
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- John J. McLaughlin
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5.7/10

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Director
- Robert Markowitz
Writers
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- John J. McLaughlin
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

Trivia
According to screenwriter John J. McLaughlin, the producers told him to transform F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel into a hot romance that would appeal to younger television viewers and to alter the original novel as much as he wished. For this reason, Daisy Buchanan is a more likable character, and several scenes that do not exist in the book were added.

Goofs
When Daisy and others travel to the city for the day, they are drinking mint Juleps in their hotel suite. Their glasses are filled with a bright green liquid, but mint Juleps are not bright green. True Juleps are Bourbon, water and sugar over ice with a spring of mint.

Quotes
Owl Eyes: What do you think?
Jordan Baker: About what?
Owl Eyes: About THAT.
Jordan Baker: Books?
Owl Eyes: They're real. Here. Let me show you. They have pages in them. See? A bonafide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. I've been drunk for about a week and I thought a library would sober me up.
Jordan Baker: Did it help?
Owl Eyes: I can't tell you. I've only been here an hour.

Connections
Featured in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby': The Making of a Classic (2000)

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Good teaching tool...

Honestly, I'm not sure what would inspire anyone to watch ANY version of _The Great Gatsby_ unless you are (1) a teacher wanting to show it in conjunction with teaching the novel or (2) a student attempting to bolster your understanding of the book. (Just read the book already!) So, with that audience in mind, I think this version has it all over the 1974 film in most respects. It runs closer to the book with far fewer invented (or re-ordered or moved-to-another-location) scenes. Mira Sorvino has the convincingly lovely voice to play Daisy, whereas Mia Farrow in the older version ruins any semblance to the book character with her Minnie Mouse shrillness. Toby Stephens is not as dreamy as Robert Redford, but he does better at conveying that sinister side of Gatsby which I think many first-time readers miss or minimize. Gatsby's illicit activities, so tantalizingly vague in Fitzgerald, are rendered with too much clarity for my taste, but on the whole I found this a fine accompaniment to the novel.