Colour me Kubrick - John Malkovich, Tom Allen, Nick Barber, Brian W Cook
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Movie propaganda
They wanted something for nothing. He gave them nothing for something.
Alan Conway (John Malkovich), a second-rate con artist who passes himself off as Stanley Kubrick in the London area during the early 1990s, gets away with a few drinks, a few pounds, a few seductions and a few moments in the sun - capitalising on the public's need to rub shoulders with the mythic figures of our age. Stanley Kubrick, whose identity was stolen, was not amused. We will be. Colour me Kubrick is as much about the foibles of ordinary people and the contemporary obsession with celebrity as it is about the fantasy life and hilarious cons perpetrated by our dingy hero, Alan Conway, played by John Malkovich. The film is comic in tone, fast paced, chaotic, disjointed, designed to keep the audience off balance, the 'con' always one step ahead of our capacity to unravel it, the magician vanishing just before the hoodwinked victim grasps the sleight of the hand.
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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film crime impersonation Stanley Kubrick drama London UK true identity theft
Persons of interest
- John Malkovich .... Alan Conway
- Tom Allen .... Charles
- Nick Barber .... Denzil
- Angus Barnett .... Ace
- Lynda Baron .... Mrs Vitali
- Marisa Berenson .... Alix Rich
- Peter Bowles .... Cyril
- Paul Burnham .... Hex Mortimer
- Enzo Cilenti .... Waldegrave
- Oliver Cotton .... PC Metcalf
- Jim Davidson .... Lee Pratt
- Bryan Dick .... Sean
- Panikos Efthimiou .... Andros
- James Faulkner .... Oliver
- Nitin Chandra Ganatra .... Deepak
- Henry Goodman .... Mordecai
- Richard E Grant .... Jasper
- Nolan Hemmings .... Butch Roberts
- John Leyton .... Lord Charles Benson
- Luke Mably .... Rupert Rodnight
- Terence Rigby .... Norman
- Jack Ryan .... Steve
- Anthony Frewin .... Screenwriter
- Brian W Cook .... Director
Cinematic intelligence sources
Intelligence analyst
Special Agent Matti
Theatrical report
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Security censorship classification
M (Moderate coarse language, moderate sexual references)
Surveillance time
83 minutes (1:23 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 8 June 2006
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