Man on the Moon
A film about the life and career of the eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
- Director:Milos Forman
- Genre:Biography | Comedy | Drama
- Runtime:118 minutes
Cast
Jim Carrey : Andy Kaufman (also as Tony Clifton)
Gerry Becker : Stanley Kaufman – Andy’s Father
Greyson Erik Pendry : Little Michael Kaufman (as Greyson Pendry)
Brittany Colonna : Baby Carol Kaufman
Leslie Lyles : Janice Kaufman – Andy’s Mother
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At the beginning, Kaufman’s foreign man comes on saying it is the end of the movie and plays a record alongside the credits before walking off. Kaufman then comes back on in his normal voice saying he “Had to get rid of the people who don’t understand me, and don’t want to try”. He then proceeds to show the actual movie on a film projector starting with his childhood home, c. 1957.
Andy Kaufman (Jim Carrey) is a struggling performer whose act fails in nightclubs because, while the audience wants comedy, he sings children’s songs and overuses his “foreign man” character. Just as it becomes clear that Kaufman may have no real talent, he puts on a rhinestone jacket and does a dead-on Elvis impersonation and song. The audience bursts into applause, realizing Kaufman had tricked them – making his big Elvis payoff all the more enjoyable.[2] This is the first of many times we see Kaufman trick the audience, as “fooling the audience” is his performance style.
His eccentric style catches the eye of talent agent George Shapiro (Danny DeVito), who signs him as a client and immediately gets Kaufman on a new sitcom, Taxi, much to the dismay of sitcom-hating Kaufman. Because of the money, visibility, and chance to do his own television special, Kaufman acts on Taxi, but secretly hates it and works a second menial job as a restaurant busboy. Around this time, he gains popularity by making successful guest appearances on the new show Saturday Night Live. Read more
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