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A fool for love becomes an accidental celebrity only to lose it all.A fool for love becomes an accidental celebrity only to lose it all.A fool for love becomes an accidental celebrity only to lose it all.
Aixa Maldonado
- Maria
- (as Aixa I. Maldonado)
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Did you know
- TriviaFilmed in 2018, this is one of Ray Liotta's last films, before his death in 2022.
- GoofsIn the opening scene, the jelly that Lenny drops on the table is missing in subsequent shots.
- SoundtracksWipeout
Written by Robert Berryhill, Jim Fuller (as James Fuller), Patrick Connolly and Ronald Wilson
Performed by The Surfaris
Courtesy of Geffen Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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I get it, but I didn't like it.
"Fool's Paradise" tries to be funny and entertaining. It tries. Charlie Day wrote & directed an homage to Buster Keaton and the Peter Sellers film "Being There," but he didn't deliver an entertaining film. It is meant to be a satire of who we make celebrities and how quickly our opinions can change. By the end, though, I just didn't care.
I love Charlie Day and thought he was perfectly cast to be the lead. His eyes portrayed his naivety perfectly, but he lacked the physical comedy and over expression that would have made this more entertaining.
What he needed was help. He needed a partner to help with both writing and directing duties. Someone to say "that's not funny" or "this scene makes no sense and needs a rewrite." I get what he was trying to accomplish and I hope it leads to more attempts by Charlie Day. But I hope the next attempts are better.
I love Charlie Day and thought he was perfectly cast to be the lead. His eyes portrayed his naivety perfectly, but he lacked the physical comedy and over expression that would have made this more entertaining.
What he needed was help. He needed a partner to help with both writing and directing duties. Someone to say "that's not funny" or "this scene makes no sense and needs a rewrite." I get what he was trying to accomplish and I hope it leads to more attempts by Charlie Day. But I hope the next attempts are better.
- brettkdobbs
- Nov 18, 2023
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $855,173
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $464,259
- May 14, 2023
- Gross worldwide
- $885,712
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
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