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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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2.5

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Very much like the dinosaur. But drunk.

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4.0

67 out of 100 Metascore^®

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Iffy for 17+

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You make stupid decisions in life then die from Alzheimers.

Tissue, are you there? by MrRobert_atthemovies
This movie is sad. I said it from the first time I saw it. This movie gives Alzheimer's Disease legs. You can see the daily functions of someone with the...