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Joe Gould's Secret
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MPAA RATING: R for some language and brief nudity
Starring Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson, Hope Davis, Steve Martin, and Susan Sarandon
Filmmaker Stanley Tucci takes viewers into the poignant and sometimes humorous world of New York City in the 1940s. This is the true story of two men, one of whom would tell the other's story: famed "The New Yorker" writer Joseph Mitchell and New York bohemian Joe Gould. (USA Films)
| GENRE(S): | Drama |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Joseph Mitchell (books Professor Seagull and Joe Gould's Secret)
Howard A. Rodman |
| DIRECTED BY: | Stanley Tucci |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 26, 2000 Video: September 26, 2000 Theatrical: April 7, 2000 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 104 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
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The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Chad S. gave it a 7:
"You can see your breath hanging in the air. You see homeless people but you just don't care," goes the politically incorrect song from "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut". Stan sings the truth. But in the movies, we care, since there's no muss or fuss when you're vicarious; besides, the hobo is jerry-rigged by the filmmaker to warm the cockles of our hearts. In "Joe Gould's Secret", Ian Holm, as Gould, creates a realistic hobo, a grating hobo, and our synthetic compassion gets used up. When Holm goes ballistic, we're begging for Tucci the director to cut away from this raving lunatic. Tucci the actor, as Joe Mitchell, remains sympathetic when he shirks Gould, because in real life, we wouldn't want our reclamation project to be clingy either. To offset Gould's tirades, we follow Holm looking for a place to sleep. Tucci wants us to remember this vagrant's humiliation when Gould is on his worst behavior. At the movies, we're all humanitarians, but Trey Parker and Matt Stone, knows that most of us "[won't] think twice," and that includes Phil Collins, too. "Joe Gould's Secret" recalls a less cynical time, when someone like Gould could trick people into believing that you can be a genius, and look like you need a bath.
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