You’ll want to know whether the seams show, and the answer is they don’t, at all. from what was an essentially finished film and replace him with (the more age-appropriate) Christopher Plummer. As soon as the floodgates opened on stories of Kevin Spacey’s alleged sexual predations, the director, Ridley Scott, made the unprecedented decision to expunge all traces of Spacey’s Getty Sr. It’s impossible to divorce the film itself from its offscreen drama, which also turns on the abuse of wealth and privilege. The kidnappers’ spokesman - who phoned her regularly with demands and threats - was actually more courteous to her than was her billionaire former father-in-law. Getty was adamant in refusing to pay ransom or even to discuss the matter with his daughter-in-law Gail, who was divorced from Getty’s alcoholic, drug-addicted son, Paul II, and had no funds of her own. The film centers on Getty’s apparent indifference to the life of his 16-year-old grandson and namesake, Paul III, kidnapped by Italian radicals who would, after several months, sell the boy to the Mafia. He was also an infamous skinflint who installed a pay phone for his guests at his baronial English mansion. In 1973, when the movie is set, the octogenarian billionaire was regarded as the wealthiest man in the history of the world. The kidnapping drama All the Money in the World is an elaborate demonstration of the idea that the very rich are not like you and me - and also that the oil magnate J. Michelle Williams in All the Money in the World.
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