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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 59 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 30, 2000
- Originally Released: 1999
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love & Paul Giamatti | |
Performer: | Vincent Schiavelli, Leslie Lyles, Peter Bonerz & Norm MacDonald | |
Directed by | Milos Forman | |
Edited by | Lynzee Klingman, Adam Boome & Christopher Tellefsen | |
Music by | R.E.M. | |
Screenwriting by | Larry Karaszewski & Scott Alexander | |
Subject: | Andy Kaufman | |
Cameo: | Paul Shaffer, Marilu Henner, Lorne Michaels, David Letterman, Carol Kane, Judd Hirsch, Christopher Lloyd & Jerry Lawler | |
Produced by | Danny DeVito, Stacey Sher & Michael Shamberg | |
Director of Photography: | Anastas Michos |
Entertainment Reviews:
...It is a fascinating, whirlwind tour through the life of a true Hollywood enigma....The film does offer an illuminating dissection of Kaufman's comedic style and philosophy...
Box Office
Rating: 2/4 --
As drama, it's a near miss. Yet as an introduction -- or a reminder -- of a singular talent, it has its appeal.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 3/4 --
Carrey gets inside Kaufman's skin.
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Combustible Celluloid
...What is most wonderful about MAN ON THE MOON, a very good film, is that it remains true to Kaufman's stubborn vision....The film has a heroic performance from Jim Carrey...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Superficially clever yet profoundly shallow.
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Globe and Mail
Rating: 5/5 --
A teeming, fast-paced spin through a particularly strange show-biz life.
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eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 4/5 --
Makes you unsure whether you have learned more (or absolutely nothing) about this mysterious and undoubtedly talented man.
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BBC.com
Product Description:
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.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 21,064
- UPC: 025192072024
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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