Zeroville: Love, Cinema, and Punk Rock, 1969

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A film by James Franco, based on the book by Steve Erickson. Starring James Franco, Megan Fox, Joey King, Jacki Weaver, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, and Seth Rogan. Ike Jerome, a 24-year-old architecture student inspired by the few films he has seen, rides the bus into Hollywood. Jerome is almost autistic (later, his friend dubs him a “cineautistic”) in his interactions with the world. With a tattoo of Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor as they appear in A Place in the Sun on his shaved head, he makes an impression on the people around him. Soon breaking into film as a designer and eventually, a film editor, Vikar (as he is nicknamed) begins a dreamlike journey into the world of films that eventually ends in tragedy and almost horrific discovery.