Framing John DeLorean (2019)
Storyline
A documentary interspersed with acted scenes, this portrait of John DeLorean covers the brilliant but tragically flawed automaker's rise to stardom and shocking down fall.
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Cast
William Hill, Alec Baldwin, Michael Rispoli, Josh Cooke, Jason Jones, Josh Charles, Sean Cullen, Morena Baccarin, Matt Gorsky, Ben Livingston, Bob Gale, Dean Winters, Dana Ashbrook, Kayla Foster, Eli Tokash, Grayson Eddey, Porter Kelly, Kathryn DeLorean, Tamir Ardon, Hillel Levin, Patrick Wright, John Z. DeLorean
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Reviews
88
Slant Magazine
John DeLorean has a biography that could have been reverse engineered from a Hollywood epic about the rise and fall of an auto-industry mogul.
85
IGN
Framing John DeLorean deftly tells the bigger-than-life tale of one man’s bold quest to build a timeless sports car.
80
An adventurous hybrid. ... It shouldn’t work, but it does.
75
Baldwin lets us see glimpses of a movie that might be — on cable or streaming, a mini-series of “The People Vs. O.J. Simpson” style. Baldwin gets the tall, ungainly gait down and the makeup looks like that of a vain, egotistical “winner” who’d had work done to give him that profile.
75
Framing John DeLorean is a film that delights in stretching the truth, so maybe its constant ignorance of Hamm’s work is just part of its whole meta-narrative shtick.
