Movie star disappears
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Did you know
George Clooney has starred in four Coen Brothers movies.
The latest crazy comedy from the acclaimed filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen is Hail, Caesar!, a film set in the Hollywood film industry of the 1950s. The film has an all-star cast including George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Josh Brolin, Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum.
Baird Whitlock (Clooney) is the world’s biggest movie star. In the middle of an epic film production, he suddenly vanishes, and his captors demand an enormous ransom for his safe return. The film's producers soon discover that it will take the power of Hollywood’s biggest names to solve the mystery of his disappearance.
Hail, Caesar! is a quirky mystery story that pulls back the curtain to show the unexpected humour and drama that goes on behind the scenes of a big Hollywood production.
Find out what happens when the mysterious and humorous Hail, Caesar! opens in local cinemas on March 3.
Vocabulary
- acclaim (v): to praise somebody publicly
vanish (v): to disappear suddenly
ransom (n): money that is paid to somebody so that they will set free a person who is being kept prisoner by them
quirky (adj): slightly strange and unusual in an amusing way
