The Great Gatsby follows Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest in search of the American dream in the spring of 1922. A would-be writer of modest means, Nick rents a small house in West Egg next door to the mysterious self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy (Carey Mulligan) and her husband, Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton). Anyone who’s anyone attends Gatsby’s extravagant parties where the booze flows (despite a ban on alcohol better known as prohibition) and excess is realized.

It’s only after Nick and Gatsby become friends that we learn that Daisy was Gatsby’s sweetheart before he was sent off to war and all that he’s done since, he’s done for her. Gatsby wants to believe he and Daisy can rewind the clock to a better time when the two were in love with one another. “If I could just get back to the start,” he says. But as Nick reminds him, “You can’t repeat the past.”

Lou Lumenick of the New York Post writes, “Leonardo DiCaprio makes a splendid, Oscar-caliber Gatsby, capturing the dark side behind his affected bonhomie as no actor has done since Alan Ladd in 1949, and he’s perfectly abetted by Tobey Maguire’s hard-drinking Nick. The Great Gatsby stands out like a beacon in a sea of silly blockbusters.”

The film will be distributed in standard, 3D and RealD formats, and HSX predicts that it will take in $37M in its 3,500 theater wide release this weekend. For downloads; additional trailers; TV spots; galleries and a very cool guide to style, check out the official The Great Gatsby website.

Rating: PG-13 // Genre: Drama, Romance // Runtime: 2 hr. and 23 min. // Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carry Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke // Directed by: Baz Luhrmann // Based on the Novel by: F. Scott Fitzgerald // Screenplay by: Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce // Produced by: Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, A&E Television, Bazmark/Red Wagon Entertainment // Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures