Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 159
Fresh: 126 | Rotten: 33
Rockwell is spot-on as Barris, and Clooney directs with entertaining style and flair.
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 6
Rockwell is spot-on as Barris, and Clooney directs with entertaining style and flair.
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Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 56,591
Movie Info
Chuck Barris is best known to most Americans as the guy who used to host The Gong Show. He was also the creator and producer of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and a handful of other successful game shows in the 1960s and 1970s. But was he also a hired killer working with the CIA? That's the take-it-or-leave-it premise of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, based on the memoir of the same name by Chuck Barris. Barris (Sam Rockwell) grows up dreaming of success in show biz and winning the hearts
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Cast
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Sam Rockwell
Chuck Barris -
Drew Barrymore
Penny -
George Clooney
Jim Byrd -
Julia Roberts
Patricia Watson -
Rutger Hauer
Keeler -
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Debbie -
Kristen Wilson
Loretta -
Jennifer Hall
Georgia -
Jim Lange
Himself -
Gene Gene Patton
Actual Gene Gene -
Jaye P. Morgan
Herself -
Dick Clark
Himself -
Murray Langston
Actual Unknown Comic -
Steve Adams
Dating Game Director -
Robert John Burke
Instructor Jenks -
Carlos Carrasco
Brazioni -
Pascal Devigne
Critic -
Michael Ensign
Simon Oliver -
Tommy Hinkley
Hambone Man -
Richard Kind
Casting Executive Ma... -
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Michelle Sweeney
Housekeeper -
Jerome Tiberghien
Englishman -
Jerry Weintraub
Larry Goldberg -
Christiane Paul
Black Bachelor -
James Urbaniak
Rod Flexner -
Daniel Zacapa
Renda -
Krista Allen
Pretty Woman in the ... -
Artie Lange
Bellboy -
Sergei Priselkov
Shaving Man -
Emilio Rivera
Benitez -
Maria-Eve Bertrand
Stud Bachelorette -
Bill Corday
Justice of the Peace -
Isabelle Blais
Chuck's Date #2 -
David Julian Hirsh
Freddy "Boom Boom" C... -
Michael Cera
Chuck (8 & 11 Years) -
Suyun Kim
Asian Folksinger #1 -
Aimee Rose Ambroziak
Chuck's Date #1 -
John Todd Anderson
Stud Bachelor -
Tanya Anthony
Prostitute -
Barbara Bacci
Woman In Veil -
Shaun Balbar
Beanpole Bachelor -
Samantha Banton
Black Bachelorette -
Richard Beaudet
Gong Show Band -
Carlo Berardinucci
Waiter -
Claudia Besso
Chuck's Mother -
Melissa Carter
Chuck's Date #3 -
Chelsea Ceci
Tuvia (8 Years) -
Joe Cobden
Unknown Comic -
Leslie Cottle
L.A. Bar Woman -
Ethan Thomas C. Demp...
Chuck (3 Years) -
Ron Di Lauro
Gong Show Band -
Ilona Elkin
Georgia's Girlfriend -
Marlida Ferreira
Woman In Pub -
Michael Filipowich
Handsome Bachelor -
Marlene Fisher
Casting Executive Wo... -
Isabelle Juneau
Amana Girl -
Martin Kevan
Chuck's Father -
Janet Lane
Blonde Bachelorette -
Jeff Lefebvre
Frizzy Hair Bachelor -
Rachelle Lefevre
Tuvia (25 Years) -
Andre Minicozzi
Gong Show Band -
Nathalie Morin
Bachelorette Winner -
Cheryl Murphy
Little Person -
Shulan Noma
Asian Folksinger #2 -
Keshav Patel
Elvis Singer -
Bruce Pepper
Gong Show Band -
Andrée-Anne Quesnel
Gong Show Model -
George Randolph
Gene Gene -
Norman Roy
Colbert -
Francois St. Pierre
Gong Show Band -
Dino Tosques
L.A. Bartender -
Sean Tucker
Barfly -
Peter N. Wilson
Gong Show Band -
Tony Zanca
Bachelor Winner -
Frank Fontaine
ABC Executive -
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All Critics (161) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (126) | Rotten (33) | DVD (34)
Brimming with slightly self-conscious directorial panache, the movie zips between nearly three decades, fantasy and reality without ever really deciding how seriously it wants to take itself.
Top CriticThe American film of the season -- and maybe of the year, or the last couple of years...
A darkly enjoyable roller-coaster ride.
A picture that is surely one of the oddest ever made.
It's a smart, stylish, eminently watchable movie that nonetheless feels a little empty at the end.
Clooney, who on the basis of this movie has a big career ahead of him behind the camera, demonstrates a real flair for visual comedy.
Well-acted and well-written, for mature teens+.
An intriguing, bizarre and challenging film that invites us into a world filled with larger-than-life characters and strange occurrences.
Fact and possible fiction amble to a photo finish as one of pop culture's nuttiest milestones.
Clooney wanted Kaufman's script delivered without corruption or softening. He has overcorrected and made a glum, almost listless movie.
Directing a movie is no picnic, but I'll be damned if Mr. Clooney doesn't make it seem like fun.
A terrific actor, a handsome movie star and now an accomplished director--damn you, Mr. Clooney, for making it that much more unfair for the average joe likes of myself.
Clooney directs it! How could it be any good?
Noir fantasy with the pop funkiness of '70s game shows
Un prodigio narrativo muy diferente a todo lo que suele producir Hollywood, pero no por capricho de un director sino al servicio de una historia y de un punto de vista.
Bounces around like the smarter and weirder older brother of Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is freakin' brilliant. Sam Rockwell gives a whack-you-upside-the-head dose of his talent!
...a one-note character study about an unhappy, insecure, delusional paranoiac, whose assassin gimmick wears thin almost before it gets started.
Because of movies like this, nostalgia just ain't what it used to be.
Directing for the first time, Clooney turns out to be a natural when it comes to parody...
Clooney has made a stylish debut, wisely making his movie resemble the wacky game shows Barris dreamt up.
Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind is the latest, and most promising evolution of Clooney's career. . .
Os universos de Chuck Barris e Charlie Kaufman são complementares. E igualmente fascinantes.
Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind may not be in the Citizen Kane class, but George Clooney's first foray behind the camera does boast similarly bravura technique and an infectious sense of joy in the filmmaking process.
The movie feels like it's going to be great, and it carries on feeling that way for a long time, but takeoff just never happens.
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- Patricia Watson: Leave the microfilm in, baby.
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- Chuck Barris: Whatever your hand finds to do, do it gladly, because there is no work, love, knowledge or wisdom in the grave.
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