Best Buy > Music & Movies > Movies > Action & Adventure > General Action & Adventure > Product Info

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - DVD

SKU: 5709245 | Release Date: 9/9/2003

Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Violence, Profanity

Shipping: Usually leaves our warehouse in 1 business day Estimate Arrival Time

Store Pickup: Limited Availability Check Stores

Financing:

Great Financing Offer

List Price:

$9.99

Our Price:

$8.99

Printer friendly printing

Overview
Details
Cast & Crew
Customer
Reviews
Editorial
Reviews

All Movie Guide

Need Help?

Call 1-888-BEST BUY or have us call you now.

Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Violence, Profanity
Format: DVD
Theatrical Release: 2002
Length: 114 minutes
Screen Formats: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Genre: Action & Adventure
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1

Synopsis

Chuck Barris is best known to most Americans as the guy who used to host The Gong Show. He was also the creator and producer of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and a handful of other successful game shows in the 1960s and 1970s. But was he also a hired killer working with the CIA? That's the take-it-or-leave-it premise of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, based on the memoir of the same name by Chuck Barris. Barris (Sam Rockwell) grows up dreaming of success in show biz and winning the hearts of beautiful women, but early on, he meets with plenty of resistance from both women and the television industry, despite writing the hit tune "Palisades Park" and scoring a job with Dick Clark on American Bandstand. The 1960s proves more fortunate for Barris; he meets the love of his life, Penny (Drew Barrymore), and sells ABC on the idea of The Dating Game. However, after the show has made him wealthy and successful, Barris is approached by the mysterious Jim Byrd (George Clooney), a CIA agent who wants to recruit Barris as a covert operative. Barris finds the notion of playing spy games intriguing and agrees, but soon discovers what Byrd and his partners really want is for Barris to assassinate uncooperative figures around the world. Soon, Barris finds that his life has been all but taken over by Byrd and another CIA agent, the mysterious and sexy Patricia (Julia Roberts). As he hops the globe, killing people in the name of American security (using his status as a Dating Game chaperone as a cover), Barris learns that the KGB has discovered his not-so-little secret and that his own life is in great danger. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind marked the directorial debut of actor George Clooney, working from a screenplay adapted by Charlie Kaufman from Barris' book. Dick Clark, Dating Game host Jim Lange, frequent Gong Show panelist Jaye P. Morgan, and Gene Gene Patton appear as themselves. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Version Details

Languages/Sound

Eng/Fre

Screen Formats

Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV

Subtitle Languages

Eng

Additional Features

cc Feature commentary with director George Clooney and cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel Deleted scenes with optional commentary Six behind the scenes vignettes Sam Rockwell screen tests Gong Show acts The Real Chuck Barris documentary Still gallery French language track Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound Widescreen (2.40:1) - enhanced for 16x9 televisions

Chapters

Side #1 --
1. The Downward Spiral [6:02]
2. Going Places [3:58]
3. Palisades Park [5:28]
4. They Bought It! [5:11]
5. I've Been Watching You [3:31]
6. Patriotism [7:03]
7. My Baby's Back [6:39]
8. Tit for Tat [6:21]
9. The Hit Man [7:54]
10. Penny's Proposal [4:23]
11. Duped by a Bachelor [6:47]
12. The Gong Show [4:12]
13. Why Do We Do What We Do? [7:54]
14. Once More Chance [7:02]
15. Take Me Away [2:49]
16. No Love [9:16]
17. Chuck and Penny [7:19]
18. End Credits [4:28]

Cast

Drew Barrymore - Penny
David Julian Hirsh - Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon
Jaye P. Morgan
Jennifer Hall - Georgia
Murray Langston
Brad Pitt - cameo
Julia Roberts - Patricia Watson
Sam Rockwell - Chuck Barris
Jerry Weintraub - Larry Goldberg
Chuck Barris - cameo
George Clooney - Jim Byrd
Dick Clark
Matt Damon - cameo
Michael Ensign - Simon Oliver
Fred Savage
Kristen Wilson - Loretta
Artie Lange - Bellboy
Emilio Rivera
Jim Lange
Gene "Gene Gene the Dancing Machine" Patton
Rutger Hauer - Keeler
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Debbie
Suyun Kim - Asian Folksinger #1
Cheryl Murphy - Little Person
Shulan Noma - Asian Folksinger #2
Keshav Patel - Elvis Singer
Bruce Pepper - Gong Show Band
Andr�e-Anne Quesnel - Gong Show Model
George Randolph - Gene Gene
Norman Roy - Colbert
Francois St. Pierre - Gong Show Band
Dino Tosques - L.A. Bartender
Sean Tucker - Barfly
Peter N. Wilson - Gong Show Band
Tony Zanca - Bachelor Winner
Aimee Rose Ambroziak - Chuck's Date #1
John Todd Anderson - Stud Bachelor
Tanya Anthony - Prostitute
Barbara Bacci - Woman In Veil
Shaun Balbar - Beanpole Bachelor
Samantha Banton - Black Bachelorette
Richard Beaudet - Gong Show Band
Carlo Berardinucci - Waiter
Claudia Besso - Chuck's Mother
Melissa Carter - Chuck's Date #3
Chelsea Ceci - Tuvia (8 Years)
Joe Cobden - Unknown Comic
Leslie Cottle - L.A. Bar Woman
Ethan Thomas C. Dempster - Chuck (3 Years)
Ron Di Lauro - Gong Show Band
Ilona Elkin - Georgia's Girlfriend
Marlida Ferreira - Woman In Pub
Michael Filipowich - Handsome Bachelor
Marlene Fisher - Casting Executive Woman
Isabelle Juneau - Amana Girl
Martin Kevan - Chuck's Father
Janet Lane - Blonde Bachelorette
Jeff Lefebvre - Frizzy Hair Bachelor
Rachelle Lefevre - Tuvia (25 Years)
Andre Minicozzi - Gong Show Band
Nathalie Morin - Bachelorette Winner
Steve Adams - Dating Game Director
Frank Fontaine - ABC Executive
Pascal Devigne - Critic
Carlos Carrasco - Brazioni
Robert John Burke - Instructor Jenks
Tommy Hinkley - Hambone Man
Michelle Sweeney - Housekeeper
Jaye P. Morgan - Herself
Jerome Tiberghien - Englishman
Daniel Zacapa - Renda
James Urbaniak - Rod Flexner
Michael Cera - Chuck (8 & 11 Years)
Isabelle Blais - Chuck's Date #2
Maria-Eve Bertrand - Stud Bachelorette
Sergei Priselkov - Shaving Man
Emilio Rivera - Benitez
Gene Gene Patton
Gene Gene Patton - Actual Gene Gene
Krista Allen - Pretty Woman in the Pool
Krista Allen - Pretty Woman
Dick Clark - Himself
Murray Langston - Actual Unknown Comic
Richard Kind - Casting Executive Man
Jim Lange - Himself
Christiane Paul - Black Bachelor
Bill Corday - Justice of the Peace
Robert Burke - Instructor Jenks

Crew

Co-producer: Jeffrey Sudzin
Executive Producer: Stephen Evans
Sound/Sound Designer: Edward Tise ,Aaron Glascock
Supervising Sound Editor: Aaron Glascock ,Curt Schulkey
Sound/Sound Designer: Curt Schulkey
Executive Producer: Rand Ravich ,Steven Soderbergh ,Bob Weinstein ,Harvey Weinstein
Casting: Ellen Chenoweth
Screenwriter: Charlie Kaufman
Executive Producer: Far Shariat
Set Designer: Jean-Pierre Lavoie
Director: George Clooney
Composer (Music Score): Alex Wurman
Cinematographer: Newton Thomas Sigel
Supervising Art Director: Isabelle Guay
Art Director: Jean-Pierre Paquet
Special Effects: Les Productions de L'intrigue
Set Designer: Anne Galea ,Russell Moore
First Assistant Director: David Webb
Musical Direction/Supervision: Joe Rangel
Art Director: Nicholas Lepage
Set Designer: Nathalie Lortie ,Fannie Duguay Lefebvre
Visual Effects: Buzz Image Group
Visual Effects Supervisor: Louis Morin
Special Effects Coordinator: Bill Rivard
Associate Producer: Amy Minda Cohen ,Gym Hinderer
Executive Producer: Jonathan Gordon
Costume Designer: Renee April
Production Designer: James D. Bissell
Producer: Andrew Lazar
Editor: Stephen Mirrione
Set Designer: Felix Lariviere-Charron
Book Author: Chuck Barris
First Assistant Director: David J.Webb
Executive Producer: Mary Ann Bernard
Screenwriter: Donald Kaufman
Production Designer: Jim Bissell
Executive Producer: Peter Andrews
Cinematographer: Tom Sigel

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: AMG Review
Perry Seibert , AMG

George Clooney shows the necessary skills to maintain a career as a director with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. He has a quirky, unconventional eye that certainly suits the material and manages to be confident without being too showy -- he never loses sight of why he is going to the occasional visual extreme. Less surprisingly, Clooney has a sure hand with his actors. Sam Rockwell is outstanding as Barris, managing to make the audience relate to him both through his excellent evocation of the real man and through a natural charm that feels like a combination of character and actor. This is the kind of performance that gets an actor years of steady work. Drew Barrymore is her usual winning self as the long-suffering girlfriend of the main character, Clooney himself does subtle acting work, and Julia Roberts is genuinely interesting as the femme fatale. The only major fault lies in the story itself. While it is fun to guess if Barris' claim that he was a CIA agent is genuine, the film takes at face value that it did happen. That leads to a dramatically slow second half where the novelty has worn off and the story grows repetitive with Barris' cycle of assassination, game show work, relationship troubles, self-doubt, assassination (etc., etc., etc.), becoming a letdown after the hilarious rush of the film's first hour. That said, the film is never less than watchable, and any film that contains a womanizing main character being confronted about his existential doubt by a nude woman in a pool at the Playboy mansion grotto has its heart and sense of humor in the right place. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Skip Navigation

My Account

Order Status

Customer Service

Español

Best Buy - Buyer Be Happy.

Weekly Ad

Store Locator

Outlet Center

Services

Gifts

TV & Video

Audio

Car & GPS

Cameras & Camcorders

Computers

Mobile Phones & Office

Music, Movies, & Books

Video Games & Gadgets

Home & Appliances

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - DVD

Financing:

Need Help?

Synopsis

Version Details

Cast

Crew

Order Support

Community

Product Support

Credit Cards

Reward Zone® Program

Corporate Info

More Best Buy Sites

Need help? We're available 24/7 at 1-888-BEST BUY (1-888-237-8289)