Are there are any nepo-babies in the mainstream film industry? Perhaps we should be asking if there are any successful people who aren’t? We started making a list sitting at the popcorn counter this week and soon ran out of ink. But out of all the nepo-babies that we’ve seen at the movies over the last few years, why is Michael Douglas our most admired? We look back at his career and ask how he managed to consistently choose zeitgeist projects for more than thirty years. And out of all these timely pictures, which is our favourite?
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