Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
by George Clooney
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Actor: Dick Clark, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Sam RockwellDirector: George Clooney
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Producer: Amy Minda Cohen
Producer: Andrew Lazar
Producer: Bob Weinstein
Producer: Far Shariat
Producer: Gym Hinderer
Writer: Charlie Kaufman
Writer: Chuck Barris
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax Films
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Movie Reviews of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Movie Review: A Brilliant Film!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is about Chuck Barris who produced many television shows like "The Newlywed Game," "The Game Game," and "The Dating Game." He also was the host of the very famous "The Gong Show." This movie is based on his memroirs based on the same name. In the book he claims that he worked for the CIA and killed people as a second job. Sam Rockwell plays Chuck Barris in the film. Sam Rockwell wowed me in this movie, and then wowed me in a newer movie "Matchstick Men." What I liked about this movie was that the people who casted it were pitch perfect with Sam Rockwell. He looked just like the pictures of Chuck Barris that I have seen. He also looked different in every scene, something that I found very intesting. The rest of the acting was good. Drew Barrymoore was great as Chuck's girlfriend Penny. Julia Roberts was good with her short role. George Clooney worked in front and behind of the camera as an actor and the director, and I think that his vision of Chuck Barris' story was right on. The most important thing about this movie was that you care for the character of Chuck, and even though you know that he is not going to die on one of his missions, you can still get the thrill of what he feels like on his missions.The movie begins in 1981 and we meet Chuck who is in a New York hotel suffering from a mental breakdown. Scared of everything he decides to write a book about what he believes to be a useless and wasted life. We flashback to 1955 where he becomes obsessed with television production and he believes that the future is big for TV. He meets the free spirted Penny, while sleeping with her roommate Debbie, and the two become attracted to each other. She also gives him the idea for his first game show "The Dating Game." After making a pilot he meets Jim Byrd who recruits people for the CIA. Barris agrees to becoming a member of the CIA, and decides to make dates on the show to the places where he has to go for his work. He is an assassian and uses the show as the cover for his CIA work. He produces more and more game shows and becomes successful, all while leading his double life. He meets another agent Patricia Watson and a shady guy by the name of Keeler, and becomes attracted to Patricia, while being involved with Penny. Things get much more confusing when it turns out that there is a mole in the CIA, and everybody cannot trust everybody else. Chuck cannot leave either because he knows everything about the organization. Every secret, everybody, and every plan.
"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is a "true story" that I really can't believe it to be true. Barris really is believable though. Throughout the movies we are treated to interviews with Dick Clarke, the Unknown Comic, and Gene Gene the Dancing Machine from "The Gong Show." They all told the truth about Chucks activities, how he went away for long periods of time, etc. The movie was written by Charlie Kaufman who wrote great movies as "Being John Malkovich," and "Adaptation," and movies that are odd, but entertaining like "Human Nature." The similiar thing about all of his movies are that there is always an added twist. The same goes for "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind." Hollywood picked a perfect person to adapt Chuck Barris' story, and I cannot think of anybody that could do it as well as he did.
ENJOY!
Rated R for language, sexual content and violence.
Summary of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
George Clooney (OCEAN'S ELEVEN), Drew Barrymore (CHARLIE'S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE), and Sam Rockwell (THE GREEN MILE), star in the comedy thriller that poses an irresistible question: What would happen if a wildly successful TV producer was also a top-secret CIA assassin? While a maverick creator of America's favorite game shows gains notoriety for his smash television hits, he is also drawn into a shadowy world of danger as a covert government operative! But soon his life begins to spiral out of control -- both of them! Directed by George Clooney and based on Chuck Barris' cult-classic autobiography, with a script by Charlie Kaufman (ADAPTATION), this entertaining hit delivers comedy to keep you laughing . . . and intrigue to keep you guessing!The memoirs of game-show creator-host Chuck Barris (the man responsible for The Newlywed Game and The Gong Show) are the inspiration for this sneaky biopic, which not only covers Barris's television career, but also his exploits--unsubstantiated, but also not disproved--as a government assassin. As Barris, Sam Rockwell gives a gutsy, manic-depressive, warts-and-all performance, depicting how Barris cheated repeatedly on his longtime girlfriend Penny (Drew Barrymore), was recruited into the CIA by a stone-faced agent (George Clooney, who also makes a stylish directorial debut), created some of the most popular yet reviled TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, and had a torrid affair with a mysterious, beautiful operative (Julia Roberts). For a screenplay by Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is pretty straightforward, letting Barris's fevered brain speak for itself. The result manages to be lurid, comic, and oddly philosophical. --Bret Fetzer
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