Stars: Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer, Sam Rockwell

Director: George Clooney

Summary: By day Chuck Harris is a highly successful television producer and by night he is a CIA assassin - or is he?...

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Showbiz autobiographies don't 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. It's based on a memoir by Chuck Barris--the mastermind behind The Dating Game(the format we know in the UK as Blind Date) and 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, and there's sterling work from Drew Barrymore as Barris' ditzy regular girlfriend and Julia Roberts as an espionage dragon lady. It's an acidly witty film that consistently turns the tables on its hero and the audience. Priceless tiny gags include: a silent Brad Pitt and Matt Damon as contestants of The Dating Gameand Barris coming up with the idea for a TV quiz show while half-listening to a CIA instructor explaining torture techniques. --Kim Newman

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	2002
Release Date:	September 22, 2003
Runtime:	113 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D 888804
Label:	Miramax
Keywords:	Dangerous, Comedy, Mind, General, Confessions, Drama
Genre:	Drama