The Great Buck Howard

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Laurance M @RT95298844 Jul 24 How could you not like this movie? Movies are supposed to be entertaining and this one is. And it's offbeat and full of surprise star cameos. If you want to look for deep meanings and life lessons sure you will find that as well. But the John Malkovich performance alone holds it all together and makes it a sure enjoyable watch. See more David S. @dstreusand Apr 5 Malkovich was great! Good movie about the entertainment business and the struggle to be successful. See more Steve D @RT35616104 10/07/2023 The cast is all it has. See more Gareth v @geewah 06/21/2023 Feel good dramedy that is carried by the performance of Malkovich and the underrated Blunt. See more 01/08/2022 Truly one of the most pointless and boring films I've ever seen. I've seen more pointless, and I've seen more boring but this one propels further away from entertaining or compelling than most films I've seen. It relies almost entirely on sappy sentimentalism, which in itself isn't very profound, unique, or lasting. It also seems a bit disingenuous. It's the kind of sentimentality you see from high ranking officials mourning a dead comrade in old Soviet times when you know damn well they had the person killed to begin with and never liked the person. See more dave s @RT68722908 07/17/2021 In The Great Buck Howard, Troy Gable (Colin Hanks) is a law school student who, in a bout of existential angst, quits school and lands a job as the road manager for the washed-up mentalist Buck Howard (John Malkovich) and winds up falling in love with a publicist (Emily Blunt) brought in to bolster Buck's flailing career. The premise is great, but the movie flounders by putting the focus on Hanks' drab character and his seemingly pointless romance instead of centering everything around Buck Howard, the only truly interesting character in the film. There are some laughs, but the flaccid script misses the mark more often than not. Malkovich's enthusiastic performance as the delusional and self-centered egomaniac is probably reason enough to watch, but the lasting memory that the film will have is probably the wooden acting performance of Hanks, who proves that acting talent is not hereditary. See more Read all reviews

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