Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.

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Hal Ashby

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Jane Fonda

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Jon Voight

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Lee Grant

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Dustin Hoffman

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Rosanna Arquette

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Jeff Bridges

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Allison Anders

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John C. Reilly

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Judd Apatow

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David O. Russell

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Adam McKay

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