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The life of crooner/actor is presented as part fact, part fiction and much fantasy. It is framed around a biopic being filmed about and starring Darin as himself, with he being surrounded by many of his lifelong entourage from the Bronx. In that fantasy, the young actor portraying him as a child in the biopic emerges as his true younger self, questioning, knowing all, if his adult self wants the biopic to be all sugar and roses, as is the want of his manager, , or if he wants to tell the truth. Regardless, what is presented of his life includes: his sickly childhood - where he was not expected to survive past his teens - with his vaudevillian mother, Polly Cassotto, his musical mentor, and his much older sister, Nina Cassotto, both who ultimately lived vicariously through his fame; his early singing career where the ultimate goal was not to rival but surpass the fame of ; the meeting of who would become his wife, already famous actress - his costar in his first movie role - he needing to win over her protective stage mother, Mary Douvan, to get to Sandra; their turbulent marriage due to the competing priorities of work and family, and their respective egos not allowing each to celebrate the others success; his turn to political activism in the late 1960s during the changing times when his style of music was no longer in vogue; what affected his thoughts of running for political office himself; and how he tried to reinvent his singer self in the early 1970s.
Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973) is making a movie about his life. Hes volatile, driven by the love of performing, ambition, perfectionism, and belief that hes living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly, then "Splish Splash" puts him at the top of the charts and on "Bandstand." He wants to be an entertainer, not a pop star, so he aims for the Copacabana; then its on to the movies, where he meets and marries Sandra Dee. After, its balancing career, health, marriage and family life, balances he doesnt always keep. Throughout, conversations with his boyhood self give him perspective.
Kevin Spacey
Bobby Darin
Kate Bosworth
Sandra Dee
John Goodman
Steve Blauner
Bob Hoskins
Charlie Maffia
Brenda Blethyn
Polly Cassotto
Greta Scacchi
Mary Duvan
Caroline Aaron
Nina Cassotto Maffia
Peter Cincotti
Dick Behrke
William Ullrich
Little Bobby
Michael Byrne
Dr. Andretti
Matt Rippy
David Gershenson
Gary Whelan
Jules Podell
Jake Broder
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Tayfun Bademsoy
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