Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Charlie Sheen | ... | Charles Swan III | |
James Paradise | ... | Brain-Doctor | |
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Anne Bellamy | ... | Grandma |
Jason Schwartzman | ... | Kirby Star | |
Patricia Arquette | ... | Izzy | |
Katheryn Winnick | ... | Ivana | |
Mary Elizabeth Winstead | ... | Kate | |
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Paul Benshoof | ... | Charlie Dancing Double |
Angela Lindvall | ... | Veiled Woman | |
Tyne Stecklein | ... | Penny | |
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Lindsey McLevis | ... | Lindsey |
Alexandra Hulme | ... | Yvonne (as Lexy Hulme) | |
Bar Paly | ... | Maria-Carla | |
Margarita Kallas | ... | Josephine | |
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August Culligan | ... | Nephew August |
A graphic designer's enviable life slides into despair when his girlfriend breaks up with him.
Well that's how the movie might have been promoted. But while "Being John Malkovich" actually was funny and enticing, this might have one good scene in it (involving Cowboys). It tries hard to be quirky, casting Bill Murray helps with that. But Charlie Sheen who is playing the character Charles Swan does not cut it. I like quite a lot of Charlies movies he has done. But he can't pull this one off (meta or not).
The problem of the movie therefor relies not in its incoherence (it has somewhat of a straight story line in between all the dream sequences or whatever you want to call them), rather in the lack of "good" incoherence. There is system and a plan when it comes to madness and trying to explore the mind as again "Being John Malkovich" has proved. Charlie Kaufman (another Charlie) is better suited in portraying this. I would suggest not wasting your time on this