MOVIE · 1999

Man on the Moon

ComedyDrama118 min

Jim Carrey is Andy Kaufman, tracing the life and career of the avant-garde comedian whose act kept audiences, colleagues, and the media guessing where the joke ended and the person began. Miloš Forman follows Kaufman through a public persona built on provocation, misdirection, and increasingly hard-to-classify performances, including his headline-making turns in the wrestling ring. Danny DeVito and Paul Giamatti are among the figures in Kaufman’s orbit as fame, control, and self-invention start to blur together.