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Release Date: September 8th, 2006

Running Time: 126 min

U.S. Box Office: $14,415,222

Rating: R for language, some violence and sexual content.

Director: Allen Coulter

Starring: Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins, Kathleen Robertson

Critics Reviews: 7 out of 10

FilmCritic.com George Reeves' death remains one of Hollywood's juiciest unsolved mysteries. After years spent clinging to the industry's fringe, the performer shot to stardom in 1952 when he hopped into Superman's red-and-blue tights for a Saturday-morning serial. Sean O'Connell

Reelviews The question of whether actor George Reeves committed suicide or was murdered will go down in history as one of Hollywood's great unsolved mysteries. Allen Coulter's Hollywoodland, a fictionalized account of an investigation of the death, presents the three most common scenarios but, taking a page from Rashomon, it never settles on one. James Berardinelli

The Boston Globe Set in 1950s Tinseltown, "Hollywoodland" has scraps of old movie glamour. It also has shades of later movies that sullied all that class and refinement with a lurid touch, namely Roman Polanski's "Chinatown." But that's all ``Hollywoodland" is: scraps and shade. Wesley Morris

San Francisco Chronicle Superman shot himself. Even for those of us born after the death of George Reeves, this is a trauma our young minds were forced to assimilate. There's Superman. Everything seems fine. Mick LaSalle

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