Synopsis
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
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Cast
- Sam RockwellChuck Barris
- Drew BarrymorePenny
- George ClooneyJim Byrd
- Julia RobertsPatricia Watson
- Rutger HauerKeeler
- Maggie GyllenhaalDebbie
- Robert John BurkeInstructor Jenks
- Jennifer HallGeorgia
- Kristen WilsonLoretta
- J. Todd AndersonStud Bachelor
Recommandations
- 90
Variety
A powerful and creative film. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
As for myself, I think he made it all up and never killed anybody. Having been involved in a weekly television show myself, I know for a melancholy fact that there is just not enough time between tapings to fly off to Helsinki and kill for my government. - 80
Village Voice
Confessions keeps its cards close, and Kaufman is perfectly capable of starving his screenplay to save it, and perfectly happy with being misunderstood. - 75
Charlotte Observer
This fairy-tale quality gives director Clooney, who's making his debut behind the camera, his stylistic clue. He's in perfect sync with writer Kaufman; they treat even the most "serious" scenes like Monty Python routines. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
Clooney shows strong filmmaking imagination in his directorial debut, but the movie's driving force is Charlie Kaufman's screenplay, a genre-bending romp that blurs all boundaries between the factual and the fantastical. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
All about the wacky borderlands where reality and invention intersect. But there are no safe demarcations -- no demilitarized zone, no Berlin Wall -- to cue us to which side we're operating in, or that Barris is operating in. - 75
USA Today
May not be a straightforward bio, nor does it offer much in the way of Barris' motivations, but the film is an oddly fascinating depiction of an architect of pop culture. - 60
L.A. Weekly
Ultimately just another celebrity bio-pic, and far less trenchant than, say, the more conventional "Auto Focus." For all their whirring ingenuity, Kaufman's scripts require a director who will tether his cleverness to reality.
