Art School Confidential

Art School Confidential
Screenplay by Daniel Clowes.
Directed by Terry Zwigoff.
Culver City, CA: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2006.

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Starring:
• Max Minghella
• Sophia Myles
• John Malkovich
• Jim Broadbent
• Matt Keeslar
• Ethan Suplee
• Joel David Moore
• Anjelica Huston

You don't have to be a a comic book geek to be excited about the return of director Terry y [Zwigoff] and comics creator Daniel Clowes, the dynamic duo behind 2001's acclaimed movie Ghost World). Their new collaboration, Art School Confidential, is a terrifically spun art world satire-cum-murder mystery.

At the center is Jerome Platz (heartthrob-in-training Max Minghella of Bee Season and Syriana), a sensitive type who harbors dreams of becoming the greatest artist in the world--and says so with a straight face. After spending his high school years on the fringe, Jerome gets a break when he is accepted to art school. Surrounded by clichés--the Waspafarian vegan, the theory-spewing conceptualist, the Peter Jackson wannabe--he's no longer the odd man out. But he quickly realizes that it takes more than talent to succeed in an industry so fueled by hype. In his desperation to make a mark--and get the girl--he becomes the target of a criminal investigation into a series of campus stranglings.

Gritty and darkly funny; Art School Confidential claims an indie-pedigree cast--plus Anjelica Huston, Jim Broadbent, and a perfect John Malkovich as a self-absorbed, ever-so-sleazy art instructor. Art School Confidential may not offer any particularly groundbreaking ideas-- the art world is corrupted by money?--but when a movie is this entertaining, it hardly matters.

Review from Oprah Magazine -- Rebecca Rothbaum

For moviephiles and drama students, we have the screenplay.