He briefly uses some strong profanity, fools around with some hookers and plays a character who's abusive to those in the audience. JIM CARREY plays the unconventional comedian who takes it upon himself to shock or otherwise throw off his audiences.WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R For language and brief sexuality/nudity. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? If they're fans of Carrey, singer turned actress Courtney Love or of the late Andy Kaufman they might, but this one doesn't seem like much of a draw to most kids.
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With few buying into his illness and his public popularity diminishing due to his continued outrageous behavior, Kaufman must then decide how to live out the rest of his now shortened life and whether to continue trying to shock people or not. Yet, when Kaufman announces that he's dying of lung cancer, nobody, including his own parents, Stanley (GERRY BECKER) and Janice (LESLIE LYLES), knows whether that's just another of his outrageous acts.
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It's there that he meets the eventual love of his life, Lynne Margulies (COURTNEY LOVE), as well as his arch nemesis, professional wrestler Jerry Lawler (JERRY LAWLER) who challenges Kaufman in and out of the ring. Thus, he's not that surprised when Kaufman creates a bizarre TV special - much to the chagrin of Maynard Smith (VINCENT SCHIAVELLI), a harried network executive, or when he suddenly starts putting women down and wrestling with them in the ring. That is, until he learns that he's really Kaufman in disguise, a character that he and writer Bob Zmuda (PAUL GIAMATTI) created as a gag to push the audience's limits.Īs Shapiro gets to know Kaufman as best as anyone can, he learns that the performer, who doesn't claim to be a comedian, enjoys and lives for shocking his audience. Not knowing who this is, Shapiro checks out one of his acts and his shocked at how the puffy and abusive lounge singer treats the audience. That eventually leads to a recurring spot on the TV show, "Taxi," but before Kaufman will sign the contract, he wants Shapiro and the network to agree to a series of demands, one of which involves the occasional casting of Tony Clifton on the show. It's the latter that draws the attention of George Shapiro (DANNY DeVITO), a seasoned talent agent who gets the performer an appearance on TV's "Saturday Night Live." Although his "performances" are often met with blank stares or unbelieving disapproval, a few of them are hits. PLOT: Andy Kaufman (JIM CARREY) is a 1970s comedian best described as unconventional.
QUICK TAKE: An unconventional comedian continually tries to shock his audience in this look at the life and times of the late Andy Kaufman.
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