Albert Brooks used to be a master at making his audience squirm with laughter. In his early, funny films, like "Real Life" (1979), "Modern Romance" (1981), and the classic yuppie burlesque "Lost in America" (1985), he could spend whole scenes talking his way out of the trouble he'd just talked his way into.
A love story hidden inside a piece of agitprop buried inside a global murder mystery, the narrative of "The Constant Gardener" is, at its core, a buttoned-up John le Carre diplomatic thriller that's seemingly ripped from the pages of The Economist.
In the 1991 Albert Brooks comedy Defending Your Life, Brooks' sad-sack character undertakes one of the most nerve-rattling and cringe-inducing tasks in the repertoire of the modern wage slave: aski...
Albert Brooks used to be a master at making his audience squirm with laughter. In his early, funny films, like "Real Life" (1979), "Modern Romance" (1981), and the classic yuppie burlesque "Lost in America" (1985), he could spend whole scenes talking his way out of the trouble he'd just talked his way into.
A love story hidden inside a piece of agitprop buried inside a global murder mystery, the narrative of "The Constant Gardener" is, at its core, a buttoned-up John le Carre diplomatic thriller that's seemingly ripped from the pages of The Economist.
In the 1991 Albert Brooks comedy Defending Your Life, Brooks' sad-sack character undertakes one of the most nerve-rattling and cringe-inducing tasks in the repertoire of the modern wage slave: aski...
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