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SMILING THROUGH THE APOCALYPSE

By Tom HAYES

LIGHTHOUSE PICTURES INC. - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2013

- Year of production
- 2013
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Tom HAYES
- Writer(s)
- Tom HAYES
- Cast
- Nora EPHRON
- Producer(s)
- Tom HAYES
- Synopsis
- Smiling Through the Apocalypse' chronicles a man whose editorial instincts produced one of the greatest magazines ever: Harold Hayes, the swinging editor and cultural provocateur of the iconic Esquire Magazine of the Sixties. Through the narrative of his son Tom, a journey ensues opening unprecedented access to some of the Esquire magazine's most compelling talents, from Nora Ephron to George Lois, and Tom Wolfe to Gore Vidal. The film is a story of risk, triumph, and challenge told by the people that helped make the magazine great, and a son who only come to understand his father's editorial greatness 23 years after his passing