Confessioni di una mente pericolosa
Un adattamento della biografia di culto del produttore televisivo Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell), in cui l’uomo racconta di essere stato un sicario della C.I.A.Un adattamento della biografia di culto del produttore televisivo Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell), in cui l’uomo racconta di essere stato un sicario della C.I.A.Un adattamento della biografia di culto del produttore televisivo Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell), in cui l’uomo racconta di essere stato un sicario della C.I.A.
- Premi
- 7 vittorie e 12 candidature
- Chuck Age 8 and 11
- (as Michael Céra)
- Freddie Cannon
- (as David Hirsh)
Trama
Lo sapevi?
- QuizJulia Roberts and Drew Barrymore worked for a scale salary of $250,000 as a favor to their friend, director George Clooney. Brad Pitt and Matt Damon did cameos for free.
- BlooperThe same extras are used for different scenes. When Chuck is in the cinema you can see the same man as later in the audience with one of Chuck's quiz shows. This is likely deliberate, given the odd humor of the movie.
- Citazioni
[last lines]
Chuck Barris: I came up with a new game-show idea recently. It's called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They look back at their lives, see who they were, what they accomplished, how close they came to realizing their dreams. The winner is the one who doesn't blow his brains out. He gets a refrigerator.
- ConnessioniFeatured in L'âge d'or de la musique de film 1965-1975 (2009)
- Colonne sonoreSincerely
Written by Alan Freed / Harvey Fuqua
Performed by The Moonglows
Courtesy of MCA Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
Barris is played with great intensity by Sam Rockwell. Clooney took a risk of planting a not-well-known name as the lead. With such star power behind him like Clooney, Barrymore, and Julia Roberts, he stands out. Rockwell has starred in such movies before like Heist and The Green Mile, all three times with great acting. He brings out the inner demons of Barris. Rockwell was exceptional, and exceptionally believable. Even though he was billed fourth, he has his name out now and we can expect him in larger things.
Many scenes were standout, with their camera angles and unique way of playing it. At times it seemed like a play, with a wall disappearing, for instance. However, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind wasn't as funny as I was hoping. Sure, some scenes were quite funny (like the scenes in the beginning where it was a montage of the f-word). It had an authentic feel to the 60's (including the soundtrack), like Catch Me If You Can did. At times, it had a documentary style to it, which would have been more effective if they had more substance behind it, such as more of the interviews or none at all. Many of the camera shots were close-ups, which looked quite cool. I am a game show aficionado, so I thought that most of the time would be spent on Barris going onto the CIA, but it was evenly divided between the two, so I was happy.
At times, the mood was light-hearted, almost satirical, but at other points it was serious drama that poked at your emotions. As I said before, Rockwell is definitely lead material. Clooney did a good job portraying the CIA recruiter, and Barrymore is the other standout as Barris' girlfriend. She and Rockwell, besides good chemistry, both displayed true emotions. Roberts, as another CIA agent, put in her usual mediocre performance, though she was better than normal. However, many characters have no substance behind them, namely Roberts, who was billed third and had about three scenes (which, I guess, is better than Jennifer Aniston in Office Space).
Possible the only downpoint of the movie was that at times, it got too trippy for its own good. Even Barris didn't know what was real and what wasn't. It got a little too muddled in plot, such as who is who, at times. When Barris sees everyone who he killed, that was just weird. Anyway, I would highly recommend Confessions of a Dangerous Mind to about anyone.
My rating: 8/10
Rated R for language, sexual content and violence.
- movieguy1021
- 25 gen 2003
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- 30.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 16.007.718 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 87.199 USD
- 5 gen 2003
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