Excellent Film

Rating: 9/10 (20 January 2000)

One of Jim Carrey's finest films. Carrey eschews his Ace Ventura/Dumb & Dumber persona to fill the shoes of Andy Kaufman. Man On The Moon is the story of Kaufman from his days as a television star on Taxi to his career killing intergender wrestling champ. Danny DeVito plays George Shapiro, Kaufman's manager who finds himself defending Andy constantly. Paul Giamatti plays Kaufman's best friend Bob Zmuda and Courtney Love plays Kaufman's girlfriend Lynne Marguilles. The film is fairly accurate in depicting Kaufman's life from his days doing standup where he introduced us to Foreign Man who later became Latka Gravas to his Carnegie Hall show to his death. Carrey does an outstanding job as the mysterious Kaufman with the cast doing just as impressive a job.