Barney's Version
The worst thing about getting an old person's version of anything is that they're going to use it as an opportunity to whine about the price of bus fare.
Fortunately, the bulk of this fictional biography is set when the protagonist isn't so senile.
Barney (Paul Giamatti) is an opinionated television producer, with a penchant for booze, hockey and women, who's accused of murder when his friend Boogie (Scott Speedman) disappears.
As the mystery unravels, so to does the shroud surrounding Barney's romantic liaisons, including those with his emotionally imbalanced first wife (Rachelle Lefevre), his wealthy second wife (Minnie Driver) and his third wife (Rosamund Pike), whom he met at his second wedding.
Based on the book by Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version is a well-acted, funny, somewhat monotonous, tale about a quirky Canadian malcontent.
And while complaining isn't typical Canadian behaviour, it's important to note that Barney is from Quebec. (Yellow Light)
The worst thing about getting an old person's version of anything is that they're going to use it as an opportunity to whine about the price of bus fare.
Fortunately, the bulk of this fictional biography is set when the protagonist isn't so senile.
Barney (Paul Giamatti) is an opinionated television producer, with a penchant for booze, hockey and women, who's accused of murder when his friend Boogie (Scott Speedman) disappears.
As the mystery unravels, so to does the shroud surrounding Barney's romantic liaisons, including those with his emotionally imbalanced first wife (Rachelle Lefevre), his wealthy second wife (Minnie Driver) and his third wife (Rosamund Pike), whom he met at his second wedding.
Based on the book by Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version is a well-acted, funny, somewhat monotonous, tale about a quirky Canadian malcontent.
And while complaining isn't typical Canadian behaviour, it's important to note that Barney is from Quebec. (Yellow Light)