Should you watch Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond?
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Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
Documentary · 2017
Offbeat documentarian Chris Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on the set of Man on the Moon.
The sides of Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
- On-set footage from Man on the Moon, unseen for years
- Jim Carrey refusing to leave Andy Kaufman's character
- Carrey, nearly twenty years later, talking straight to camera
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond is good for you if…
- you want the footage a studio kept buried and the man explaining it years later.
- you like an actor who answers only as a dead comedian for four months.
- you want to see what one role costs the person giving it.
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond is bad for you if…
- you want the Jim Carrey who makes you laugh, and that is not what he came to do here.
- you can't sit with a man taking apart his own sense of self.
About: identity · fame · grief
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