2007 · comedy · drama · romance
Delirious
Directed by Tom DiCillo1h 47m2007
Les, a small-time celebrity photographer desperate to make it big, befriends Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to become an actor. When by chance, Toby becomes romantically involved with K'Harma Leeds, the hottest pop star of the moment, Les grows jealous and plots revenge.
Our read: Delirious (2007) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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