Great Gatsby (1974)

Great Gatsby is a film adaptation of the famous literary work of the same name. This film is the story of the aristocratic Jay Gatsby (Robert Redford) who becomes friends with another extremely wealthy family and their newest acquaintance Nick Carraway (Sam Waterston). Nick is an uprooted Midwesterner who has moved to Long Island to find success and true love. Carraway greatly admires Gatsby’s wealth and tries to become a close personal friend to him. He grows to learn that Gatsby is not at all who he thought he was and is as troubled as anyone he has ever met; his life is consumed by greed and obsession as he his jailed in a prison of his materialism and superficiality.