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Barney's Version

Release Date: Jan 14, 2011
Rated: Language and some sexual content
Runtime: 2 hr. 12 min.
Genres: Art House/Foreign, Comedy, Drama
Director:Richard J. Lewis
Cast:Paul Giamatti, Dustin Hoffman, Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver, Rachelle Lefevre. Full cast + crew

Synopsis

This seriocomic adaptation of Mordecai Richler's award-winning 1997 novel stars Paul Giamatti as Barney Panofsky, who meets the great love of his life, Miriam (Rosamund Pike), at the most inopportune time imaginable: his marriage to his second wife (Minnie Driver), a wealthy Jewish princess and compulsive shopper. Narrated by Barney as a confessional, the film covers 30 years of his unusual journey -- from his first marriage to the chronically unfaithful free spirit Clara (Rachelle Lefevre) and their...more

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4.0

67 out of 100 Metascore^®

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Barney's Version by terryw973
While performances were excellent, you should read the novel first and then (soon!) see the film. The film doesn't follow the novel exactly, but very close...

Meaty but Sad -- A Tale of Class by parsonsdavid
This movie is an epic story of the life of Barney, an unremarkable every-man character, played wonderfully by Paul Giamatti. It's a movie about ethnic...