2017 · documentary · drama · comedy
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
Directed by Chris Smith1h 33m2017
Offbeat documentarian Chris Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on the set of Man on the Moon.
Our read: Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive documentary · drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle documentary / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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