ollywoodland, an inspiring film that revolves around the apparent suicide of actor George Reeves, who offered more real-life drama than any of the Superman shows he filmed in the '50s. This fictional-ized biography takes a trashy story and peels it open to show us the nasty aspects of all the people involved.

Director Allen Coulter - whose credits include "The Sopranos" and "Six Feet Under" - and TV writer Paul Bernbaum have focused Hollywoodland on the concerns surrounding the death of the actor who was reduced to working in B-movies. Eventually, he would become famous as TV's Superman: That is until 1958, when the show was canceled.

One year later, a downhearted Reeves was found shot in his Beverly Hills home. There were suspicions of foul play: a small house party was in progress, and Reeves was carrying on a long affair with the wife of a brutish studio executive, and so on. But the official verdict was always suicide.

The story begins at the death scene just after the shooting: Reeves' house in Benedict Canyon, where the 45-year-old Reeves, who's played with confidence and vulnerability by Ben Affleck, has gone upstairs and, with any warning to anyone, blew his brains out.