The Last of Robin Hood (2014)

There’s something telling about The Last of Robin Hood being the first project to emerge from Lifetime Films. The sordid tale of Errol Flynn’s last days clinching with a Lolita and soaking in booze and drugs, Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s by-the-numbers account technically qualifies as a true-crime tale, and seems to exist mostly out of a sense of marketable prurience: hallmarks of Lifetime’s infamous cable movies.

The palpable appeal of The Last of Robin Hood lies almost entirely in its casting. Kevin Kline stars as erstwhile star Flynn in his late-1950s decline, and Kline and Flynn prove a match made in Hollywood heaven. The film begins with Flynn’s 1959 death, then flashes back to tell the story of how Kline met, aggressively wooed, and won the heart of aspiring fifteen-year-old actress Beverly Aadland (Dakota Fanning).