F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece is a story that could have only taken place in the Jazz Age; an era in which recklessness with money, liquor, women and fast cars pervaded the American consciousness. Robert Redford is Jay Gatsby, the dashing, enigmatic millionaire obsessed with the elusive and spoilt Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow). The screenplay for this elegant story was conceived with a meticulous concern for language, time, and place by Francis Ford Coppola.