Sullivan's Travels

Sullivan's Travels (1941)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034240/]

The Gist:
An amazing film that manages to be about a lot of different things all at once. It is a Hollywood film that is both a critique on Hollywood and validation for Hollywood, a study on artistic integrity, a modest attempt to address poverty. It's not a perfect film, it falls to much of the trappings of the industry it eschews, but at the same time it recognizes itself as a part of Hollywood and comes to the conclusion that such a thing is not so bad.