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CRAZY AS A FOX

Today's movie was the weird and wonderful

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

with Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore and George Clooney who also directs.

This is the story of Chuck Barris who was a big deal in my time and more or less invented the precursors to reality teevee. The Dating Game, Marriage Game and so on. The infamous Gong Show. Which I thought totally hilarious.

It is based on Barris' book in which he also claims to have been a hit man for the CIA. 31 hits.

The movie is made as a memoir but also gives a lot of light around the story. A lot of it is very funny. Some of it is not. I mean that it is upsetting.

It is written by Charlie Kaufman or adapted by. Therefore another level of strangeness.

All of which is like catnip to this cat. I have seen the film a few times and never have tired of it.

That makes it a 5 out of Netflix5.

One of the reasons that I like this movie so much is that is shows Sam Rockwell off to great advantage. He has not always had the best film assignments but I have always loved watching him work. He has a great persona. He is funny. He has a rubber face that shows all the things going on for his character.

Two less serious things, he almost always appears naked and he invariably gets to do a crazy dance that is his trademark, somewhere in the show. This film is no exception. I comes right at the end.

Labels: films