Honor Blackman, Jim Davidson, John Malkovich
Based on a true story, this outlandish comedy stars John Malkovich as Alan Conway, a second-rate con man who successfully passed himself off as legendary director Stanley Kubrick in the late 1990s. Ku...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 27, 2007
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Flixster Reviews (477)
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March 23, 2008Flat, dull, and exceedingly boring; Colour Me Kubrick merely meanders its way through con after con in a pointless screenplay with no plot. Malkovich does well in his part, but the highlights end there. For what could have been an encompassing film of Kubrick references, Colour M...( read more)
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December 1, 2007This tells the true-ish story (whatever that means) of a con- man named Allen Conway, who went around London posing as director Stanley Kubrick, while Eyes Wide Shut was being filmed. And people actually believed him, even though he looked nothing like Kubrick. Sounds pretty inte...( read more)
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August 15, 2007Boring, Yeah John Malkovich was great but the movie itself wasn't complete. Most of the movie is Alan Conway sitting in clubs or gay bars trying to convince people that he is Stanley Kubrick, and that gets old really fast. Virtually no insight is given as to what drives Conway's ...( read more)
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October 23, 2009Well...nothing really happened. The director seems to be under the impression that playing some music that Kubrick made famous is somehow enough to make everyone think he's clever and in on the joke. This is a flat, uninteresting film where nothing very interesting happens. I was...( read more)
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September 8, 2009A pretty uneventful story about a homosexual confidence trickster impersonating the straight and married Kubrick. You'd think people would have caught on sooner!
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July 21, 2009Ive been really disappointed by this one ... even if malkovitch is playing good. The initial idea was interesting but you need a lil more than that to make a movie.
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Critic Reviews
March 31, 2007
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
March 23, 2007
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Malkovich's performance, and the irresistible concept of an anonymous man dining out on a false identity, carries the film along giddily, and Cook wisely keeps Color Me Kubrick short and deliciously t... full review
March 23, 2007
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
The movie never convinces us there's anyone there to expose, though, and Malkovich flits from scene to scene without ever anchoring Conway in a lasting reality. full review
March 22, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Without much insight into the self-dramatizing enigma of Conway, nor any representation of the solitary auteur he impersonated, the film becomes a repetitive series of small-scale con games played on ... full review
March 20, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
The movie is endless even at less than 90 minutes. full review
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March 19, 2007The guy who this is based on conned a family friend of mine,who is a famous UK singer called Joe Longthorne. He told him that he was Stanley Kubrick and that he wanted Joe for a future project. A couple of years later I saw a BBC documentry about this guy and he looks nothing like Kubrick at all. Joe must have not known what Kubrick looked like because this guy looked more like Woody Allen.
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