King Of Marvin Gardens, The (1972, U.S.A.)

In a film that captures all the sadness of an American dream gone wrong, Bruce Dern concocts impossible get-rich-quick schemes and insists on trying them out on his brother (Jack Nicholson) and girlfriend (Ellen Burstyn). Dern’s final scheme, to build an Hawaiian resort with embezzled money from his mobster boss, ends in tragedy for all involved.