Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind

Starring: Brad Pitt, Drew Barrymore Director: George Clooney Original UK Premiere: 2003 Dvd Release: 29th December, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Showbiz autobiographies dont come any stranger than Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, a fractured kaleidoscope of film styles, from sitcom to paranoid horror, accompanied by an infectious musical mosaic. Its based on a memoir by Chuck Barris, the mastermind behind The Dating Game & The Gong Show, which interweaves a fairly straight account of his toils in the television industry with outrageous fictions about his secret life as a CIA hit man. First-time director George Clooney takes Barris bizarre book and, working with screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, who similarly mutated the truth in Adaptation, makes an extraordinary picture, with an awards-quality performance from Sam Rockwell as Barris.

Clooney takes the secondary role of Barris enigmatic boss, & theres sterling work from Drew Barrymore as Barris ditzy regular girlfriend & Julia Roberts as an espionage dragon lady. Its an acidly witty film that consistently turns the tables on its hero & the audience. Priceless tiny gags include: a silent Brad Pitt & Matt Damon as contestants of The Dating Game & Barris coming up with the idea for a TV quiz show while half-listening to a CIA instructor explaining torture techniques.

William Bradley Pitt, widely known as Brad Pitt, is an American film actor. He was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma & raised in Springfield, Missouri. In high school, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student government & school musicals. He dropped out of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He was two credits shy of graduating with a Journalism degree, before trying his luck in Hollywood. Before he became successful at acting, Pitt supported himself by driving strippers in limos, moving refrigerators & dressing as a giant chicken while working for the restaurant chain El Pollo Loco. In 1995, he was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 25 sexiest stars in film history. In December 1996, he got engaged to actress Gwyneth Paltrow but the engagement didnt last long & the two split up in June 1997. He married actress Jennifer Aniston on July 29, 2000. Their separation was announced on January 7, 2005. Previous to this, Pitt was involved in long-term relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow. Extensive tabloid coverage surrounded this relationship. Posters Of Brad Pitt

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Drew Blythe Barrymore is an American film & television actress & producer. She is the granddaughter of stage actor John Barrymore & the great-niece of Lionel Barrymore & Ethel Barrymore. Her father, John Drew Barrymore & half-brother, John Blyth, are also actors. Drew was the maiden name of her great-grandmother, Georgiana; Blythe was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice. Barrymores career began at the age of 11 months, when she appeared in a dog food commercial. When she was bitten by her canine co-star, the producers feared litigation, though Barrymore merely laughed the incident off. She shot to fame as a child actor when she co-starred in the 1982 Steven Spielberg film E,T. At the age of 7, on November 20, 1982, Barrymore became the youngest ever guest host of the weekly TV program Saturday Night Live, after Andy Kaufman was voted off the show. She performed in a skit where she revealed that she had killed E,T. Posters Of Drew Barrymore

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George Timothy Clooney is an American film & television actor probably best-known for his former role in the long-running television drama ER. He has also appeared in a number of movies such as Return of the Killer Tomatoes, From Dusk Till Dawn, One Fine Day, Batman & Robin, Out of Sight, Three Kings, The Perfect Storm, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Oceans Eleven, Welcome to Collinwood, Intolerable Cruelty & Oceans Twelve, along with guest appearances on sitcoms such as Roseanne & Friends. He played a handyman on television series The Facts of Life. He is the son of Cincinnati news anchor & TV host Nick Clooney, a nephew of actress & singer Rosemary Clooney & a cousin of actor Miguel Ferrer ; another cousin, Gabe Ferrer, is married to Debby Boone. He made his debut as a film director in the 2002 feature Confessions of a Dangerous Mind an adaptation of the implausible autobiography of groundbreaking TV producer Chuck Barris. Posters Of George Clooney

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