Looking for Palladin

Few actors can boast having appeared in films by Otto Preminger, John Cassavetes, the Coen brothers and Spike Lee. Ben Gazzara can, and he stars here as two-time Oscar winner Jack Palladin, a retired actor now living in Guatemala. This gentle film sees arrogant Hollywood talent agent, Josh Ross (David Moscow) sent, somewhat reluctantly, to lure Palladin out of retirement. The young agent’s contempt for the ‘old’ star mirrors his comedic distaste for the local community, whose help he desperately needs in order to find him. The search is further complicated – emotionally, at least – by the fact that the retired actor was once married to Josh’s late mother, and what Josh hopes will be a quick and lucrative deal turns into a soul-searching journey as the two men confront the past they had forsaken.

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