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Genres:
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Biography /
Comedy /
Crime /
Drama /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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George Clooney
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Actors:
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Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Michael Cera,
Dick Clark,
Jennifer Hall,
Isabelle Blais,
Ilona Elkin
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David Julian Hirsh,
Michelle Sweeney,
Chelsea Ceci,
Aimee Rose Ambroziak,
Melissa Carter,
Jaye P. Morgan,
Sam Rockwell,
Drew Barrymore,
Sean Tucker
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Duration:
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90 min.
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Rating:
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(5.2/10)96.5
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Plot Summary:
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Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell) produces business shows for small screen and leads a double flair as a CIA assassin.
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A good film that could have been a great film.
With a strong script from Charlie Kaufman and a good cast, George Clooney really ought to have made more of this film.
The premise is intriguing. Chuck Barris, a schlock TV producer is drafted into a covert branch of the CIA that specialise in assassination – and it’s a true story. The problem with this film is it can’t decide what it wants to be. Barris’ rise and fall are not explored fully enough that we ever really empathise with his ‘long dark night’ of the soul. On the other hand the CIA storyline is treated in a comic way which betrays the tension that Clooney obviously wants us to feel. We don’t care enough about Barris the man and the dramatic tension of the plot is lost because the spy story is unbelievable.
On the plus side. Sam R...
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Those who think there is no justice in American popular culture take note: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, the autobiography of a man who created some of the most irritating programs in television history, has, two decades after publication, been made into a most irritating film. The mills of the Lord grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine.
The man in question is Chuck Barris, the inquiring mind behind The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game and The Gong Show, programs that reinforced the venerable axiom that nobody ever lost money underestimating the taste of the American public.
Perhaps because he likes a good story, perhaps because he enjoys tweaking the establishment, perhaps because unleashing all that terrible television wasn't enough for him, per...
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
George Clooney made a remarkably practised debut behind the camera with this biographical comedy theatre arts that tackles the unreliable memoirs of Chuck Barris, the hotelman and founder of effective US TV shows The Dating Encounter and The Gong Contrast c embarrass. To for certain the story of the cuff who also claimed to have killed 33 people as a CIA assassin, Clooney surrounded himself with some of the best inventive artists in Hollywood. Charlie Kaufman contributes a sharp, deadpan script that takes Barris at his word, and good use is made of cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel's shifting but evocative palette of colours and hues. The film's gleefully erratic tone and mode of expression fluctuates between gimcrack 1960s psychedelia and muted Cold In combat valour...
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Lively and amusing account of the compulsion of Chuck Barris that does not point his claims to have been a hitman, but instead extracts the maximum amusement from them.
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