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Flashbacks of a Fool
Flashbacks of a Fool is a drama directed by Baillie Walsh, has content tells about a fading Hollywood star looks back at the days of his youth as he returns home from his best friend's funeral.
10 November 1978, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2 March 1968, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
26 July 1968, Camden Town, London, England, UK
7 May 1967, South Africa
12 September 1986, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
March 21, 2009
Charismatic Daniel Craig plays Joe Scott, a washed up movie star, addicted to a misspent life of sex, drugs and uncool behaviourNovember 09, 2008
Craig does a hopelessly dissipated futuristic Bondish has-been celeb party animal, undone by an overload of hard drugs and sex orgies in a flash forward culture clash of Hollywood excess and soapy UK downhome family values.October 17, 2008
Without Daniel Craig's 007-enhanced profile, it's unlikely that Flashbacks of a Fool would have appeared anywhere except the Netflix queues of his most rabid fans.October 18, 2008
Impressively directed and superbly acted by a terrific cast, this is both a nostalgia-fuelled coming-of-age tale and a genuinely moving drama about making peace with the past.October 15, 2008
While the dialogue is often hackneyed and full of rushed backstory (not enough flashbacks, evidently), the cinematography excels, particularly the chiaroscuro interiors.October 17, 2008
The bizarre secret isn't nearly interesting enough to justify the long buildup to it, and since it amounts to bad luck it doesn't really reveal anything about the actor, anyway.April 18, 2008
An ambitious but disappointing, regret-filled psycho-drama.October 16, 2008
Craig's shaken-but-not-stirred charisma makes the most of an underwritten part, but the movie nearly flat-lines when the actor's not onscreen, which is often.November 12, 2008
... an uninspired rearrangement of familiar elements, with little emotional force to justify the entire project.April 18, 2008
Fatally, Craig's self-obsessed Joe never develops into anyone more interesting.October 18, 2008
Whiile pic doesn't exactly feel like a vanity project, its weak script might have kept it forever in development hell if debutant writer-helmer Baillie Walsh weren't the topliner's good buddy.October 18, 2008
Flashbacks flounders in the final third.