Now as a former Gong Show addict, I'll admit it, my only complaint is that we didn't get more re-creations of all those famous moments from the show.
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12/30/02
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
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Reviews Counted:158
Fresh:124
Rotten:34
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Rockwell is spot-on as Barris, and Clooney directs with entertaining style and flair.
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $15,878,598
Synopsis: George Clooney makes his directorial debut with this frenetic, visually dazzling black comedy. Based on notorious television producer Chuck Barris' "unauthorized autobiography," Clooney's film... [More]
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts, Sam Rockwell, George Clooney
Director: George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh
Reviews for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Top CriticNeither revelatory nor truly edgy--merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored.
12/30/02
A stunning Sam Rockwell's 'fessing up anchors an imaginative film.
12/29/02
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind has the feeling of the kind of film from the 1970s that Clooney studied before making this movie: loose, adventurous, witty, occasionally out of control.
12/28/02
This cynical, ludicrous, self-indulgent, dark comedy is like "A Beautiful Mind" on an acid trip as it chronicles Chuck Barris's "downward spiral of debauchery."
12/27/02
The overload of murders and double-crosses make Barris’s life seem more and more like the folly of a screenwriter’s imagination.
12/27/02
Instead of exploring this dangerous mind, Clooney plays it safe, making his freshman film deadly dull as a result.
12/27/02
Clooney has everything under control here from the storytelling to the steady hand of a director with an eye of confidence for the cinema.
12/26/02
The movie is, finally, an enigma, not because of Barris's monstrous fibbing, but because it resists being experienced as satire for the sake of its own satirical integrity.
12/25/02
Brilliantly stylized to suggest its time period and the hero's questionable, if dangerous, state of mind and fever-dreamlike recollections, Confessions never fails to entertain and intrigue.
12/24/02
...should've been a lot better.
12/23/02
Odd, but Awesome! George Clooney's directorial debut is simply spectacular. This is one smashing film!
12/21/02
Rockwell delivers a performance admirable in its hustling sweatiness.
12/19/02
Just isn’t as weird as it ought to be.
12/10/02
A powerful and creative film.
12/10/02
Top CriticStealthily thought-provoking and brashly entertaining.
12/10/02
...skillfully directed with flair and personality by George Clooney.
12/09/02
Rockwell is engaging and wildly funny
12/07/02
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