People will turn up in their droves to see the latest movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, who endures as one of a dwindling number of stars who have that effect on audiences. However, one of his credits remains locked away in a vault, with the star unwilling to share it with the world.
Set in the titular restaurant, the story focuses on a group of friends who gather there each Saturday night to discuss the latest ins and outs of their lives, but as tends to be the case when so much youthful exuberance is contained in the same room, tempers naturally flare in the stark black-and-white experimental character study.
Even though it was filmed between 1995 and 1996, Don’s Plum wasn’t screened for the public until 2001, but DiCaprio had already intervened beforehand. The actor and Maguire both opposed the film’s release because they claimed they’d only agreed to appear in a short, not the 89-minute feature pieced together in the editing room.
Before that, producer David Stutman had already taken legal action against the star-powered pairing for trying to actively block its release, with a compromise being reached that stipulated Don’s Plum couldn’t be made available anywhere within the borders of the United States and Canada, although it was permitted to be distributed internationally with certain scenes removed at their behest.
Over a decade later, fellow producer Dale Wheatley went ahead and uploaded the entire thing on a streaming website that made it freely available at no cost, which ended up being taken down when DiCaprio and Maguire mounted a copyright claim. Even though Wheatley had technically breached the terms of the previous deal, he still fired a shot in the A-lister’s direction when speaking to Fox News.
“It saddens me deeply that in 2016 we witness the senseless oppression of film and art by one of America’s most beloved actors,” he said. “While the world celebrates – and certainly Americans celebrate – his great achievements in cinema, he chooses to use an iron fist to suppress the work of many other artists including him in a film made 20 years ago.”
Don’s Plum is out there somewhere in the ether of the internet for those brave enough to go hunting for it, but having already flirted with legal action more than once in an effort to suppress it being shared readily, there’s always the chance DiCaprio will emerge from the shadows to strike down yet another illicit copy of the movie from being circulated.
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