One of the most auspicious directing debuts by an actor since Charles Laughton's unforgettable "Night of the Hunter," George Clooney's stealthily thought-provoking and brashly entertaining rendering of Chuck Barris' book "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is another must-see Christmas offering from Miramax. Sam Rockwell gives one of the year's best performances in a pop-culture/covert-ops danse macabre within a historical setting.
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