Word: biopic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, they sure could have called it Weird. After all, the main characters in this bonkers biopic are two people John Belushi never met during his brief, explosive life: Bob Woodward, the actor's biographer, and John Belushi dead. You have to cherish the daredevil idiocy of a movie whose climax is a parody of Woodward's legendary deathbed chat with CIA director William Casey. The journalist visits the hotel room where Belushi took his fatal overdose and hallucinates an interview with the dying star. "Breathe for me, Woodward!" the samurai comic cries. And it's hard to hate...
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE. This biopic stamps demon rocker Jerry Lee Lewis as a feral innocent in a time warp, instead of a sexual threat for Middle America. Dennis Quaid inhabits Jerry Lee with a nicely calculating recklessness, and Winona Ryder is hypnotically enigmatic as the singer's nymphet bride...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. David Lean's 1962 biopic, starring Peter O'Toole as adventurer T.E. Lawrence, was the first and finest epic of ideas. Now the film has been lovingly restored to 217 minutes, every one of them glorious...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. David Lean's 1962 biopic, starring Peter O'Toole as adventurer T.E. Lawrence, was the first and finest epic of ideas. Now the film has been lovingly restored to 217 minutes, every one of them glorious. Military strategy was never so movie compelling. Sand was never so sexy...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. David Lean's 1962 biopic, starring Peter O'Toole as adventurer T.E. Lawrence, was the first and finest epic of ideas. Now the film has been lovingly restored to 217 minutes, every one of them glorious. Military strategy was never so movie-compelling. Sand was never so sexy...