{"id":579,"date":"2003-03-20T22:53:10","date_gmt":"2003-03-20T22:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-579.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","slug":"confessions-of-a-dangerous-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2003\/03\/20\/confessions-of-a-dangerous-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Confessions of a Dangerous Mind<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Absolutely stunning film about the life of Chuck Barris.  By day he was a successful TV producer, and by night he was a CIA assassin.  Or was he?  The film (which is based on his autobiography) plays along with the notion.  It is a clever, gritty spy story, a sympathetic portrait of a deeply troubled man&#8217;s descent into paranoia and madness, and a very dry, back comedy all at the same time.  Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore and George Clooney all give magnificent performances.  Clooney&#8217;s direction is heavily influenced by Soderbergh, but he has an inventive touch all of his own.  The film hasn&#8217;t been hyped much on TV or in the cinemas, but this is definitely a must-see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absolutely stunning film about the life of Chuck Barris. By day he was a successful TV producer, and by night he was a CIA assassin. Or was he? The film (which is based on his autobiography) plays along with the notion. It is a clever, gritty spy story, a sympathetic portrait of a deeply troubled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_45_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}