The Last Of Robin Hood (2014)

Legendary film star Errol Flynn (Kevin Kline) seduces and becomes infatuated with an underage aspiring actress (Dakota Fanning). Her mother (Susan Sarandon) encourages the relationship in the hopes he can further her daughter's career. Directed by the late Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, this film slipped under the radar when it was released with little fanfare last year. The duo had much better luck with their film STILL ALICE which went on to went an Oscar for Julianne Moore.  The story of an alcoholic aging washed up movie star's love affair with a 15 year old girl (her age when they met) is rife with pitfalls. Flynn is portrayed in an unflattering light, his forcing of himself  on her on their first night plays out like rape. More problematic is that Flynn is a movie icon and forever fresh in our mind. While Kline might look like the bloated aging Flynn during the last years of his life, Kline lacks the charisma and elan that Flynn projected. In short, he's not convincing. Fanning and Sarandon fare much better and at heart, this isn't so much a film about Beverly Aadland and Flynn as it is a story of a mother and daughter. It works better that way. Some of the film's recreations are dubious, was Stanley Kubrick really auditioning actresses for Lolita in 1959?  With Bryan Batt, Max Casella (as Kubrick) and Patrick St. Esprit.