Videogum » The Great Buck Howard http://videogum.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:45:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 The Great Buck Howard Is Pretty TV-Good http://videogum.com/58601/the_great_buck_howard_is_prett/movies/trailer/ http://videogum.com/58601/the_great_buck_howard_is_prett/movies/trailer/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:02:09 +0000 Lindsay Robertson The Great Buck Howard, starring Colin Hanks, John Malkovich, Emily Blunt and Tom Hanks, comes out in theaters next weekend, but I discovered the other day that it’s already on IFC OnDemand, at least for Time Warner customers, so I watched. Here’s the trailer:

Even though I liked the movie, I wouldn’t recommend seeing it in theaters — it came across as a really good HBO movie that would have guaranteed John Malkovich an Emmy as Buck Howard, a washed-up yet overconfident mentalist who hires naive Colin Hanks as his tour manager. The story of the forgotten entertainer who still thinks he’s hot has been told before, but because it’s an entertaining story (the entire movie I imagined that Buck Howard was loosely based on William Shatner, but he’s actually tightly based on The Amazing Kreskin.) Anyway, this is your money-saving movie recommendation of the, um, year. Check local listings for IFC In Theaters OnDemand.

(Previously: The Great Buck Howard Has A Credibility Problem.)

]]> 2 The Great Buck Howard Has A Credibility Problem http://videogum.com/47871/the_great_buck_howard_has_a_cr/movies/trailer/ http://videogum.com/47871/the_great_buck_howard_has_a_cr/movies/trailer/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:53:08 +0000 Gabe A trailer was released this week for a movie called The Great Buck Howard starring John Malkovich and Colin Hanks. It also features Ricky Jay, Tom Hanks, Steve Zahn, Gary Coleman, all of the talk show hosts, and Michael Winslow. The story is about a college kid (Colin Hanks) who takes a job as an assistant to a washed up mentalist (John Malkovich) to the ridicule and concern of his friends and family, only to have the washed up mentalist suddenly hit the big time all over again, presumably putting the college kid right at the heart of all the action. It looks like a relatively benign movie that could really go either way. And by either way I mean it could be a family friendly comedy that is good, or a family friendly comedy that is bad. (With how you feel about family friendly comedies in the first place being another story.)

But there is one aspect of the The Great Buck Howard trailer that really strikes a false note, and its not the idea of a parlor magician suddenly being the most famous person in America. Trailer, you guys, after the jump:

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