This movie has been given the glitz and glamour treatment by Australian director Baz Luhrmann.
Indulgence was the world in which this movie was set and is the word to describe the story.
In the spring of 1922 would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) moves to the big smoke of New York to find fame and fortune.
It is the era when excess is the word of the time, whether it be women, alcohol, music or the sharemarket. It is all about living life to its fullest in the post-World War I environment.
Carraway discovers he is living next door to the mysterious yet infamous Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) and witnesses the indulgent parties he holds every week and, befriended by Gatsby, Carraway finds himself drawn into this world.