Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Brad Pitt, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney
Young, energetic, and focused on a top career in the growing television industry, Chuck Barris finds himself being followed by a suspicious character who quickly lures him into a secretive and dangero...( read more
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DVD Released: September 9, 2003
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May 31, 2009It was really difficult to get through this movie. The characters were almost entirely unlikable and annoying, I kept wanting the leading man to get killed off which inevitably wouldn't happen since it's based on a real person who is alive today. Incidentally I don't buy that thi... ...( read more )
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December 19, 2008I really couldn't find anything about this movie that I didn't like. Sam Rockwell is one of my faves, and Clooney, Barrymore and Roberts all do a great job in their roles.
The story is interesting and intriguing, mostly since it's based on an autobiography but you can't reall... ...( read more ) -
October 1, 2008George Clooney's directing debut, based on the autobiography of a 60s and 70s game show host who also killed for the CIA. Although the movie is interrupted by a few comments of real Chuck Barris' contemporaries there has to be doubt about the validity of his story. The film doesn... ...( read more )
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September 29, 2008Chuck Barris: I'm not killing people... my future's in television.
A film based on the autobiography of game-show creator-host Chuck Barris, of The Gong Show and the Dating Game to name a few. In this autobiography he details his life in show business as well as his other life a... ...( read more ) -
September 11, 2008Chuck Barris, eccentric and flamboyant host of "The Dating Game" and "The Gong Show", can be credited as the innovator of what we now call reality television. "The Gong Show", for instance, completely exploited the general public's willingness to make fools out of themselves just... ...( read more )
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June 25, 2009Good cast, but there was too many dull scenes for my taste.
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... ...( read more )
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January 24, 2003
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
January 24, 2003
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
The movie makes a case for itself through sheer oddness and perversity. full review
January 24, 2003
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Maybe the title should have been Confusions of a Dangerous Mind, though the confusion, in this case, can be pretty sublime. full review
January 24, 2003
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Not only intriguing as a story but great to look at, a marriage of bright pop images from the 1960s and 1970s and dark, cold spyscapes that seem to have wandered in from John le Carre. full review
January 20, 2003
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Confessions isn't always coherent, but it's sharply comic and surprisingly touching, so hold the gong. full review
January 17, 2003
David Edelstein, Slate
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind works best as a rollicking trip through the pop culture of the '60s and '70s. full review
January 2, 2003
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Confessions may not be a straightforward bio, nor does it offer much in the way of Barris' motivations, but the film is an oddly fascinating depiction of an architect of pop culture. full review
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