Genre:
Biographical / Comedy
Directed
by: Milos Forman
Starring:
Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love, Paul Giamatti
Running
time: 119 minutes
This 1999 biographical film covers the life
story of comic Andy Kaufman, from his youth in the suburbs of New York to his
untimely death from cancer at the age of 35.
The quality of Man on the Man as a movie
relies largely on the shoulders of Jim Carrey, who did such an amazing job
bringing Kaufman back to life. It seems the Canadian-born actor was tough to
work with on the set, since he only wanted to be referred to as Andy. That kind
of dedication must have been hard to deal with at the time, but it showed in
the result.
After its release, this film received much
criticism from people claiming that it tampered a whole lot with facts and only
focused on a small portion of the man Andy Kaufman was. I can see that: There
clearly was an oversimplification of the subject. That being said, for Carrey’s
performance, this will always be a movie I love.
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