Andy Kaufman: I'm from Hollywood

Andy Kaufman, Freddie Blassie, Jerry Lawler

Eccentric comedian Andy Kaufman stunned the world when he announced he was following a lifelong dream to become a professional wrestler. These two features focus on Andy's obsessively strange and shor...( read more  read more... )t career in the ring, as well as his yearlong vendetta against wrestler Jerry "The King" Lawler. But what was he thinking? Friends Robin Williams, Marilu Henner, Tony Danza and Bob Zmuda are still trying to figure it out.

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Unrated, 128 min.

Directed by: Lynne Margulies, Joe Orr

Released: December 31, 1992

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DVD Released: May 16, 2000

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  • March 6, 2007
    Not a bad documentary, but it fails to fully explain the "scripted" nature of Professional Wrestling, which would totally put into context Andy Kaufman's forays into the business. Most of the interviews with his friends outside of wrestling honestly thought what was going on was ... ...( read more )

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