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Flashbacks of a Fool (2008) -- A fading Hollywood star looks back at the days of his youth as he returns home from his best friend's funeral.

Overview

User Rating:
6.7/10   2,887 votes
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Director:
Baillie Walsh
Writer:
Baillie Walsh (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
17 October 2008 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama
Plot:
A fading Hollywood star looks back at the days of his youth as he returns home from his best friend's funeral. | full synopsis
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Film Company Ordered To Pay For Damaged House
 (From WENN. 29 October 2008, 6:32 PM, PDT)

Flashbacks Of A Fool
 (From New York Post. 17 October 2008, 8:17 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
nice step back into childhood emotional beginnings and where they get caught up. more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Daniel Craig ... Joe Scott

Harry Eden ... Young Joe Scot

Eve ... Ophelia Franklin
Miriam Karlin ... Mrs. Rogers
Jodhi May ... Evelyn Adams
Helen McCrory ... Peggy Tickell

Olivia Williams ... Grace Scott
Felicity Jones ... Young Ruth Davies

Keeley Hawes ... Jesse Scott
Sid Mitchell ... Chillo
Alfie Allen ... Kevin Hubble

Claire Forlani ... Ruth Davies

Mark Strong ... Mannie Miesel

James D'Arcy ... Jack Adams
Annabel Linder ... Dawn
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity, language and some drug use.
Runtime:
Argentina:110 min | Greece:110 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Filming Locations:
London, England, UK more

Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:
Referenced in Flashbacks of a Fool Movie Special (2008) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
If There is Something more

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6 out of 10 people found the following comment useful:-
nice step back into childhood emotional beginnings and where they get caught up., 4 October 2008
8/10
Author: quabalah69 from United Kingdom

Cleverly written step back into how our lives get mixed up and don't get sorted at source so they effect our later lives. The simple truths are realised here, many 30-40 somethings will find many references to their own lives,release those feelings and we can live again. Simple good acting, good story, fantastic music, and very good emotional but simple ride, more of the same please. Daniel Craig plays emotionally pent up, spent up actor well, lovely mid scenes of the way we were in the early seventies. The Roxy Music song played in my head for a week after and i;d never heard it before. A must see for any romantic or any amateur psychologist or spiritualist or anybody living a life with repressed emotions...oh thats everybody then.

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