The story of the rise and fall of producer Robert Evans plays like a slimmed-down highlight reel of his autobiography of the same name, with Evans' tough-talking, wise-cracking voice telling the tallest of Hollywood tales. Evans started out as the eponymous “kid" when Darryl Zanuck saved his acting job in 1957, eventually becoming “the man” who would make such pronouncements as the head of production at Paramount in the 1970s. Through archival footage, interviews with his contemporaries, and narration by Evans himself, the film tells Evans' version of the story behind the making of big hits such as The Godfather and Love Story, with enough time to drop every name, curse every enemy, and tell at least one story about each of his seven wives.