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Larry Charles,
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: Columbia TriStar
: Foreign, Independent, Political Satire, UK
: 106 min.
: English
: French
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Enigmatic rock legend Bob Dylan stars as an enigmatic rock legend (talk about a casting coup!) in this purposefully eccentric satiric comedy. Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) is an unscrupulous concert promoter who has figured out a way to cash in on the feelings of doubt and uncertainty that plague his nation, which is being torn apart by civil war and political revolution. Sweetheart has decided he will stage a massive benefit concert, though the unnamed charity would appear to be his checking account. Sweetheart hires television producer Nina Veronica (Jessica Lange) to help promote the show and sell it as a nation-wide cable-cast event, while Sweetheart pulls a few strings to arrange for the perfect headliner -- Jack Fate (Bob Dylan), a legendary songwriter who is currently serving a term in prison. With Fate out from behind bars, Sweetheart and Veronica set out to sell their grand spectacle to the world, though one determined investigative journalist (Jeff Bridges) has set out to throw a spenner into the works of Uncle Sweetheart and his epic fundraiser. Marking the directorial debut of comedy writer Larry Charles, Masked and Anonymous also features Penelope Cruz and Luke Wilson; the film was shown in competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Special Features:
- Director's Commentary
- Deleted Scenes
- The Making of "Masked and Anonymous"
- Theatrical Trailers
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| "God help all of you"
by DSchirmer
February 5, 2008 - 2:23 AM PST
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0 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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Hammy performances and dialogue that's hallucinatory when it's not naive makes this either a great mess of a backstage musical or one of the best political films ever made. Only Bob Dylan seems to know what's going on and he's not talking, or when he does he mumbles incoherently. But Dylan aside, John Goodman's rambling comic turn as deadbeat concert promoter Uncle Sweetheart, as lucid as it is cynical, is the one to watch. Only Mickey Rourke, as the newly-self-appointed president of the Third World country the action takes place in (the capital of which looks a lot like LA), comes anywhere close, especially in his first address upon assuming power when he tells the nation, "No more stupidity. No more mistakes. It's a new day. God help all of you."
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| Too Much John Goodman
by squad
November 10, 2004 - 12:08 PM PST
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| Dylan seems to be Zimmerman saying, "Here are the fruits of what was blowing in the wind." A decidedly cynical movie depicting a world that has rejected the white-bread culture of Zimmerman's youth. Not tidy but wonderfully textured. Too much of John Goodman, who due to his TV career and clownish films has become a commodity. Goodman's oafish presence does serve as a foil for the precision of age that is Zimmerman the musician. The musical numbers attest to this mastery of the form by Dylan/Fate. Jessica Lange is very sexy in her middle age, and Penelope Cruz was a revelation to me because I was not familiar with this actress. At first I thought she was Salma Hayek with a prosthetic nose, and I was thinking that Hayek could act after all. Speaking of prosthetics, catch Jeff Bridges toupee showing in his final scene. Never a Dylan fan in his early days, I now identify with his grizzled survivor's persona. |
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