Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) — watch online on iFILM: a crime comedy-drama and the directing debut of George Clooney, scripted by Charlie Kaufman from Chuck Barris's wild memoir. Sam Rockwell plays the man who built some of American television's most enduring game shows while claiming to moonlight as a CIA hitman.

Barris invented The Gong Show, produced The Dating Game, and — by his own account — flew to Helsinki and West Berlin to eliminate targets for the agency. The CIA denied everything. Whether that makes Barris a cold-blooded operative or history's most brazen self-promoter is the question Clooney refuses to answer for you. Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts and Clooney himself fill out a cast that plays the absurdity absolutely straight.

Kaufman's script gives the dual life the same matter-of-fact tone whether Barris is negotiating a network deal or pulling a trigger in a hotel room. Stream Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) on iFILM.