Well made and has a heart.

Rating: 8/10 (2 January 2018)

On has to hand to the Franco brothers getting all those idiosyncratic details just right. The disaster artist plays like a crazy bromance movie with serious homoerotic undertones. The last mainly because, mystery man, Tommy's true motivations aren't really clear. Is he longing for friendship or is something deeper going on? In the end it really doesn't matter as friendship, the little guy versus the good old American Dream is full and center in the story. They could have made the characters really despicable but strangely enough they had certain warmth to them. If the story was handled with respect is hard to say as I haven't read the book but certainly the story and characters were handled with love and admiration. So what to make of it? Hard to say as The Disaster Artist is hard to separate from it's well known backstory. I was a bit disappointed that we didn't learn much more than was already out there. That being said I thoroughly enjoyed the movie nonetheless. I't no Ed Wood in a cinematic sense, but well made and has a heart.