Storyline
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 Rockwell, Matt Damon, George Clooney, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Brad Pitt, Rachelle Lefevre, Rutger Hauer, Michael Cera, Krista Allen, Richard Kind, Julia Roberts, Jerry Weintraub, Jaye P. Morgan, Dick Clark, Michael Ensign, Jennifer Hall, David Julian Hirsh, Sean Tucker, Ilona Elkin, Andy Quesnel, Michelle Sweeney, Anna Silk, Steve Adams, Dino Tosques, Linda Tomassone
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Reviews
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
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.
