Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Plot

Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

About Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a 2002 American biographical film directed by George Clooney in his directorial debut and written by Charlie Kaufman. It stars Sam Rockwell as game show host and producer Chuck Barris; based on Barris' 1984 "unauthorized autobiography" of the same name, in which he makes unsubstantiated claims to have worked for the CIA, it also depicts Barris' alleged second career as an international assassin, albeit in an over-the-top, absurdist manner. Drew Barrymore, Clooney, Julia Roberts and Rutger Hauer star in supporting roles. The film had a long development process; Columbia Pictures first planned to produce a film adaptation of the autobiography in the late 1980s, to be directed by Jim McBride, although nothing came of it. The film rights were purchased in 1997 by producer Andrew Lazar, who hired Kaufman to write a screenplay that quickly attracted a string of well-known directors, including David Fincher, Brian De Palma and Bryan Singer, and actors, including Mike Myers, Ben Stiller and Johnny Depp. When Clooney was hired to direct, he championed the casting of the then-unknown Rockwell and brought on Barris as consultant to provide additional authenticity; this led to uncredited rewrites that left Kaufman unhappy with the final result, including the removal of a drug addiction subplot. To accommodate the $30 million budget, Clooney convinced…

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