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Mood:
- HumorousOffbeatTouchingSentimentalWittyBittersweet
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Plot:
- Actor's LifePerformer's LifePrankCelebrity CultureShowbizTerminal IllnessArtists and ShowbizLove and Romance more...
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Genres:
- ComedyDrama
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- 20th Century70s80s
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- New YorkUSA
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- Award Winner
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- BiographyBased on True Story
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- PopRock
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- Drugs/AlcoholMild Violent Content
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Man on the Moon, 1999
English
UK, Germany, Japan, USA
Profile of Man on the Moon
The mood of Man on the Moon is offbeat, touching, and humorous. The plot centers around pranks, terminal illness, and the life of an actor. It is a drama and comedy movie. In approach, Man on the Moon is realistic. The setting is New York. It happens in the 1980s. The musical score of Man on the Moon is pop and rock. It is drawn from a biography and originally a true story. The movie is known for being an award winner. Note that Man on the Moon includes mild violent content and drugs/alcohol.
Summary of Man on the Moon
In a remarkable and touching performance, Jim Carrey tones down his usual idiosyncrasies to play late avant garde comedian Andy Kaufman in MAN ON THE MOON. In life, Kaufman was a complex, controversial, and, at times, insane performer, and Carrey captures this, as well as the subtle nuances of his more toned-down private life. Director Milos Forman stages faithful recreations of Kaufman's pranks, method-like immersion in characters, and even scenes from TAXI, the hit TV show that made him a star, but also follows the comedian through his tragic diagnosis with cancer and his loving relationship with his girlfriend Lynne Margulies (Courtney Love). Danny DeVito, Kaufman's real-life TAXI co-star, plays George Shapiro, the manager who discovers him and is willing to put up with all his antics, acknowledging Andy's wry genius. Along the way on his self-made rocky road of stardom, Kaufman reinvents himself as a foreign man who mangles jokes, and as Elvis; lip-syncs the MIGHTY MOUSE cartoon theme after a full minute of dead air time on Saturday Night Live; becomes a "professional" wrestler, and subsequently manages to sabotage his TV career. The supporting cast in MAN ON THE MOON is excellent, including Paul Giamatti has his comedic partner-in-crime, and many members of the real cast of TAXI.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, Germany, Japan, USA |
| Release date: | 20 December 1999 |
| Runtime: | 118 min |
Cast and Crew
as Andy Kaufman
as George Shapiro
as Lynne Margulies
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