Man on the Moon (1999)
Country: GB/GER/JAP/US
Technical: DeLuxe 118m
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Jim Carrey, Danny De Vito, Courtney Love, Paul Giamatti
Synopsis:
Biopic of the comedian Andy Kaufman, who rose to prominence during the seventies despite not actually having an act to speak of. His increasingly obnoxious and risqué affronts to taste led to his being dropped from Taxi and Saturday Night Live, and ultimately dying of cancer.
Review:
Patience-trying succession of embarrassingly unhumorous scenes, rather like watching a bad Norman Wisdom movie in front of relatives. The insights into Kaufman's queer ego and his wife's even queerer sense of judgement are few, but Carrey and the rest of the cast just about hold the attention. Forman continues to examine those aspects of his host country that the latter would perhaps prefer he left alone.
Country: GB/GER/JAP/US
Technical: DeLuxe 118m
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Jim Carrey, Danny De Vito, Courtney Love, Paul Giamatti
Synopsis:
Biopic of the comedian Andy Kaufman, who rose to prominence during the seventies despite not actually having an act to speak of. His increasingly obnoxious and risqué affronts to taste led to his being dropped from Taxi and Saturday Night Live, and ultimately dying of cancer.
Review:
Patience-trying succession of embarrassingly unhumorous scenes, rather like watching a bad Norman Wisdom movie in front of relatives. The insights into Kaufman's queer ego and his wife's even queerer sense of judgement are few, but Carrey and the rest of the cast just about hold the attention. Forman continues to examine those aspects of his host country that the latter would perhaps prefer he left alone.
Country: GB/GER/JAP/US
Technical: DeLuxe 118m
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Jim Carrey, Danny De Vito, Courtney Love, Paul Giamatti
Synopsis:
Biopic of the comedian Andy Kaufman, who rose to prominence during the seventies despite not actually having an act to speak of. His increasingly obnoxious and risqué affronts to taste led to his being dropped from Taxi and Saturday Night Live, and ultimately dying of cancer.
Review:
Patience-trying succession of embarrassingly unhumorous scenes, rather like watching a bad Norman Wisdom movie in front of relatives. The insights into Kaufman's queer ego and his wife's even queerer sense of judgement are few, but Carrey and the rest of the cast just about hold the attention. Forman continues to examine those aspects of his host country that the latter would perhaps prefer he left alone.