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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | 
| Actors: Drew Barrymore, Isabelle Blais, Melissa Carter (iv), Chelsea Ceci, Michael Cera
Studio: Miramax Films
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  112 reviews
Sales Rank: 8317
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 114
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 786936220933
UPC: 786936220933
EAN: 0786936220933
ASIN: B00008XERA
Theatrical Release Date: January 24, 2003
Release Date: September 9, 2003
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The memoirs of game-show creator-host Chuck Barris (the man responsible for The Newlywed Game and The Gong Show) are the inspiration for this sneaky biopic, which not only covers Barris's television career, but also his exploits--unsubstantiated, but also not disproved--as a government assassin. As Barris, Sam Rockwell gives a gutsy, manic-depressive, warts-and-all performance, depicting how Barris cheated repeatedly on his longtime girlfriend Penny (Drew Barrymore), was recruited into the CIA by a stone-faced agent (George Clooney, who also makes a stylish directorial debut), created some of the most popular yet reviled TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, and had a torrid affair with a mysterious, beautiful operative (Julia Roberts). For a screenplay by Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is pretty straightforward, letting Barris's fevered brain speak for itself. The result manages to be lurid, comic, and oddly philosophical. --Bret Fetzer
Product Description
The outrageous life and careers of television producer and game show host, Chuck Barris.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-MAY-2005
Media Type: DVD
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| Customer Reviews: Read 107 more reviews...
 charlie kauffman July 27, 2008
charlie kauffman done well. i really liked the ending. (Somebody get "synecdoche, new york" released in the US.)
It's a Hit! (pun intended) July 27, 2008
I liked this film a lot, and make no mistake it IS a (ah-em) "film". It's dark, disturbing and fun all at the same time. The lead character, Chuck Berris (Sam Rockwell) - real life creator of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game and The Gong Show - is thoroughly unlikeable and yet, I still wanted to watch.
Clooney's directorial debut is a huge success in my opinion, I was drawn in within 5 minutes and couldn't stop asking myself "could this really have happened? Is this true?" Then I started asking if Berris was merely delusional and felt this to be the case when the prisoner exchange occurred (I don't want to be a spoiler by citing the details). The film just kept me guessing from start to finish and that means the director, cast and writer all did their work very well. Clooney probably learned a lot from his work with the Cohen Brothers.
Every time I see Drew Barrymore, I fall in love with her all over again. She's always perfect as that funny, intelligent, naive, vulnerable type of woman and she pulls it off beautifully here.
The film also contains some surprise unspoken cameos. Watch for Brad Pitt as Bachelor Number One on the first aired episode of The Dating Game.
If you like the films The Cohen Brothers have created over the years, especially the darker ones, I think you will really like Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
 good movie November 1, 2007
no idea if Chuck Barris was really a CIA hitman, but it makes a fun story.
Very Intelligent Dark Comedy October 13, 2007
I will confess that I never thought much of the Dating Game, the Newlywed Game, or other creations of Chuck Barris--until I saw this movie. I have to add it to one of the most intelligent movies I have seen--one I started watching after midnight and could not stop watching. It has many twists and turns that will appeal to a critical movie-viewer. It has many comic elements, and I hardly expected to see many of the actors that appeared in it, because I don't follow films as an avocation. I can simply say that George Clooney made a masterpiece (I started watching after the opening credits) and that the plot was so interesting and yet outrageous I could not stop watching until the very end. I won't spoil it, but if the very, very end is accurate (Chuck Barris in 2002), it is worth watching the entire film to see the ending. Well done, and recommended. From a Ph.D. who values his time greatly, that's about the best I can say about anything. Whether the story is true or not is, somewhat, irrelevant.
Truth stranger than fiction??? August 12, 2007
Sam Rockwell does a great job in the role as Chuck Barris. I would have doubted the truth to the "CIA Hitman" aspect of it if I had not recently read the book "Legacy of Ashes" about the CIA. Now I believe that "Confessions..." is for real. The CIA has been and is so inept that they would have used their own mothers to do hit jobs. Being an ex-police officer I am reminded of the "FBI" agents that would show up to investigate murders or bank robberies. We called them "FBI...Famous But Incompetent." Now the CIA to me will always be known as "CIA...Can't Investigate Anything." Or more possibly "Couldn't Inform Anyone."
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