Play It As It Lays (1972)
Maria's life was a search for the ultimate answer even after she found there was none.
99 min
Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship proves to be fleeting amidst the empty decadence of Hollywood.
- Release date
- October 19, 1972
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $1,000,000
Cast
- Tuesday Weld as Maria Wyeth Lang
- Anthony Perkins as B.Z.
- Tammy Grimes as Helene
- Adam Roarke as Carter Lang
- Ruth Ford as Carlotta
- Eddie Firestone as Benny Austin
- Diana Ewing as Susannah
- Paul Lambert as Larry Kulik
- Norman Foster as Abortionist
- Chuck McCann as Abortionist's Assistant
Crew
- Frank Perry · Director
- Joan Didion · Writer
- John Gregory Dunne · Writer
- Dominick Dunne · Producer
- Frank Perry · Producer
- Jordan Cronenweth · Cinematographer
- Sidney Katz · Editor
- Joe Scully · Casting director
- Pato Guzman · Production designer