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In Hollywood of the 50's, the obscure screenplay writer Joe Gillis is not able to sell his work to the studios, is full of debts and is thinking in returning to his hometown to work in an office. While trying to escape from his creditors, he has a flat tire and parks his car in a decadent mansion in Sunset Boulevard. He meets the owner and former silent-movie star Norma Desmond, who lives alone with her butler and driver Max Von Mayerling. Norma is demented and believes she will return to the cinema industry, and is protected and isolated from the world by Max, who was her director and husband in the past and still loves her. Norma proposes Joe to move to the mansion and help her in writing a screenplay for her comeback to the cinema, and the small-time writer becomes her lover and gigolo. When Joe falls in love for the young aspirant writer Betty Schaefer, Norma becomes jealous and completely insane and her madness leads to a tragic end.

In Hollywood of the 50's, the obscure screenplay writer Joe Gillis is not able to sell his work to the studios, is full of debts and is thinking in returning to his hometown to work in an office.

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

In einer regnerischen Nacht in München Mitte der 1950er Jahre trifft der Sportreporter Robert Krohn auf die ehemals erfolgreiche UFA-Schauspielerin Veronika Voss. Diese will ihn bald wiedersehen. Auch Krohn interessiert sich nicht nur beruflich für die ungewöhnliche Frau, doch muss er bald feststellen, dass es in deren Leben offenbar einige hochproblematische Verwicklungen gibt…

Reminiscent of Sunset Boulevard, Hustler White transposes the action from the silver screen's old movie backlots to contemporary male prostitution and the porn industry.