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The Great Buck Howard (2008)
Director: Sean McGinly
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From Time Out New York
The world of semicelebrity provides the backdrop for this comedy about a law-school dropout (Hanks) who works as the personal assistant of an aging, arrogant magician (Malkovich)—the kind of two-bit entertainer whose fame peaked when you could still casually refer to The Tonight Show as “Carson.” The younger Hanks is a blander version of his father, without any sense of the elder’s hidden zaniness; Malkovich, unsurprisingly, is quite convincing as a man whose ego surrounds him like an enveloping fog.Author: Hank Sartin
Time Out New York Issue 703: March 19-25, 2009
Cast & crew
Director: Sean McGinly
Cast: John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, Ricky Jay, Tom Hanks full cast
Rated: PG
Duration: 87 mins
US Release: Mar 20 2009
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