Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.
The King of Marvin Gardens has generally received mixed reviews.
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The King of Marvin Gardens was released in 1972 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 63 reviews, giving The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) an average rating of 60%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 72%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 68%.
With a score of 60%, The King of Marvin Gardens is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1972, which stands at 58%.
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