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Rules Don't Apply
Directed by
Warren Beatty
PG-13
2016
2h 7m
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5.7
56%
34%
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The unconventional love story of an aspiring actress, her ambitious driver, and their eccentric boss, the legendary billionaire Howard Hughes.
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Cast of Rules Don't Apply
Warren Beatty
Howard Hughes
Lily Collins
Marla Mabrey
Alden Ehrenreich
Frank Forbes
Matthew Broderick
Levar Mathis
Annette Bening
Lucy Mabrey
Alec Baldwin
Bob Maheu
Haley Bennett
Mamie Murphy
Candice Bergen
Nadine Henly
Dabney Coleman
Raymond Holliday
Ed Harris
Mr. Bransford
Martin Sheen
Noah Dietrich
Paul Sorvino
Vernon Scott
Oliver Platt
Forester
Amy Madigan
Mrs. Bransford
Taissa Farmiga
Sarah Bransford
Michael Badalucco
Solly
Steve Coogan
Colonel Nigel Briggs
Megan Hilty
Sally
Paul Schneider
Richard Miskin
Chace Crawford
Young Actor
Eileen Ryan
Frank's Grandmother
Patrick Fischler
Director
Ron Perkins
Senator Ferguson
Peter MacKenzie
Gene Handsaker
Julio Oscar Mechoso
President Somoza
Hart Bochner
Colonel Willis
Ashley Hamilton
Rudolf
Caitlin Carver
Marla Lookalike
Evan O'Toole
Matt Mabrey
Holmes Osborne
Cappy
Steven Mnuchin
Merrill Lynch Executive
Ivar Brogger
T.V. Newsman #1
Steve Tom
TV Newsman #2
Dan Desmond
Gladwin Hill
Karl Florine
Air Traffic Controller
Madisyn Ritland
Bella
Louise Linton
Betty
Christine Marzano
Carrie
Graham Beckel
Wilbur
James Keane
Tom
Andrew M. Chukerman
Pianist
Michael Cavanaugh
Methodist Minister
Bruce Gray
Baptist Preacher
Josh Casaubon
Marvin
Marshall Bell
Colonel Maxwell
Kyle Bornheimer
Concerned Orderly
Nate Mooney
Orderly
Matt Griesser
Orderly
Lauri Johnson
Nurse
Geoff Pierson
Merrill Lynch Executive
Evan Londo
Ice Cream Kid
David 'Goldy' Goldsmith
Chef
James Gleason
Doctor Crone
Alan Daniels
Hughes Staffer
Joe Cortese
Mobster
George Russo
Mobster
Joey Diaz
Mobster
James Martin Kelly
Mobster
Johnny Williams
Mobster
Luis Fernandez-Gil
Somoza's Aide
Joshua Malina
Herb (uncredited)
Billy Graham
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert E. Kerr
Hughes Staffer (uncredited)
Robert Ratinoff
Rolls Royce Chauffeur (uncredited)
Frank Scozzari
RKO Studio Executive (uncredited)
Rules Don't Apply Ratings & Reviews
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Warren Beatty plays Howard Hughes with seductive charm, sneaky intelligence and buggy eccentricity. Sadly, Beatty as writer and director has chosen to make Hughes a supporting role, teasing a much deeper portrait..
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Beatty's return as actor and director is just plain glorious and, even with its flaws, this rapturously romantic escapade ends up being an insightful lark that has far more on its mind than initially meets the eye.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
What's plain onscreen -- and often metered out in short, choppy scenes -- is an inconsistency in tone, swerving from peppy to morose, and an ambivalence in whether we're meant to read Hughes as a comical or tragic figure.
Culturess
Kristen Lopez
Everything...is undercooked, half-thought and damn near incomprehensible.
Detroit Free Press
Julie Hinds
If Rules Don't Apply is merely a nostalgic love letter to Beatty's early days as an actor in the years before 1961's Splendor in the Grass made him an international sex symbol, that's enough. Give it a whirl. You'll be time traveling with one of the best.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Beatty's vision of showbiz corruption is hardly novel, but as a writer and actor, he's created the most wistful and complex portrait of Hughes I've ever seen.
leonardmaltin.com
Leonard Maltin
Bravo to Warren Beatty for making an original and highly pleasing piece of entertainment.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
This is a picture Beatty has wanted to make for years, and if the movie isn't the achievement it should be, it's at least entertaining in fits and starts.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
It may be hyperbolic to describe Warren Beatty's Howard Hughes movie, "Rules Don't Apply," as a screwball "Citizen Kane." But that's what it feels like.
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
Rules Don't Apply is a strange bird, but it's not a bad one, if you're up for four or five movies crammed into one, coupled with an earwormy musical number and some senseless wandering around. But it's not really a good movie, either.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
What is curious, and oddly pleasing, about Rules Don't Apply is that it doesn't come across as one of those long-gestating dream projects that, when it finally ends up onscreen, often seems well past its expiration date... it's disarmingly light.
Uproxx
Keith Phipps
The film struggles figuring out what it's trying to say but it does so with a lot of craftsmanship and panache. Call it pleasantly unsatisfying.
Village Voice
Michael Nordine
There's a gulf between Hughes as we know him and Hughes as Beatty portrays him, and once you get past the sugarcoating, the rest of this film is more bitter than sweet.
Washington Post
Stephanie Merry
None of the visual flourishes can make up for the way the story sags in its final stretch.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
There are intriguing elements here, expertly made. Beatty is always fascinating to watch. But "Rules Don't Apply" needed a few more rules applied if it were to fully succeed.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Zoller Seitz
It's a mess, but a glorious one, and it's so clearly the expression of one artist's vision.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
[It's] a rousing entertainment with eye candy in abundance. Rules Don't Apply is witty and weird by turns.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
There's a boyish charm to Beatty's performance, and the film maintains a whimsical, lightly zany tone throughout.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Beatty is so good at playing mental illness - he's even better here than he was in "Bugsy" - that he saves the movie. But no amount of flash and dazzle can quite quell the disappointment that comes of a story that begins promisingly and then derails.
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
One hot, frantic mess... a cautionary tale about the seductive nature of money and power, and the consequences of entering into an abusive relationship with a mentally ill person for the sake of getting ahead.
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