A brilliant 1980s car designer, an entrepreneurial genius or a scandalous criminal—who was the real John DeLorean? Once the heir apparent to the General Motors dynasty, the automaking maverick was ruined after the FBI arrested him for international cocaine smuggling—but not before he revolutionized North American car design, married a supermodel and almost single-handedly kickstarted Northern Ireland's economy during the Troubles. Between slick dramatizations starring Hollywood A-listers and revealing conversations with his inner business circle, it seems that neither his children, oldest friends nor even Alec Baldwin can decide what DeLorean truly wanted. Fame, unimaginable wealth, a loving family—he had them all, and then none. While writers and directors have tried by the dozens to make the biography of this large life, filmmakers Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce craft gorgeously recreated scenes and emotionally charged interviews into a wholly fascinating deconstruction of this most modern Icarus figure. Myrocia Watamaniuk
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