Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind (2002) 7/10

Starring : Sam Rockwell, George Clooney, Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer
Director : George Clooney
Running Time : 109 mins

Television genius Chuck Barris (Rockwell) is probably most famous for having created a number of well-known game shows, mainly The Dating Game and The Gong Show, but this movie tells the allegedly true story of how, under the pretence of chaperoning the show’s winning contestants on their holidays, he was secretly working as a hit man for the CIA.

This was a reasonably entertaining biographical movie, although whether or not any of it is true is debateable. Rockwell was well suited to playing the manic game show host, and Clooney once again gives himself a small role in his own movie, but the general disbelief at the apparent factual account made it a little hard to swallow.

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