LAST CALL/F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

The final days of legendary novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald are recalled by his trusted young confidante—the woman who was instrumental in the publishing of Fitzgerald’s final literary masterwork.

It’s 1939 when Francis Kroll (Neve Campbell, Scream, The Canterville Ghost), an aspiring young writer, secures the enviable position as secretary to the charming and somewhat mysterious F. Scott Fitzgerald (Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe winner Jeremy Irons, Reversal of Fortune), a writer facing the terrors of obscurity. But her employment is based on one condition: that she must keep his new novel about Hollywood a secret. Avidly devouring his novels, Francis becomes as enamoured of Fitzgerald as she is curious about The Last Tycoon, his work-in-progress. But what draws her closer to the troubled genius is his private life—and inescapable private demons.

Francis discovers the gentle and sad ghost of his former self—the literary “spokesman” of the 1920s Jazz Age—now a forgotten man. As a friend, she helps a tormented artist suffering delusional fantasies about his institutionalised wife Zelda (Oscar and Golden Globe winner Sissy Spacek, In the Bedroom, Larry McMurtry’s Streets of Laredo). As a caretaker, she aids a broken man dependant on alcohol and the memories of past success. As a confidant, she is empathetic to the lonely and rejected lover of columnist Sheila Graham (Natalie Radford, P.T. Barnum). For Fitzgerald and Kroll, what begins as an arrangement between a naïve girl and a mythic figure grows into an intimate two-year friendship of extraordinary inspiration that will end up changing both their lives.