Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Clooney
Genres: Comedy Drama
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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, Rovi
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