Behind the Candelabra
2013
***
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Dan Aykroyd, Scott Bakula, Rob Lowe, Boyd Holbrook, Cheynne Jackson, Paul Reiser
Debbie Reynolds
In 1977, young Scott Thorson meets Liberace, who is publicly and officially an unmarried bachelor, and becomes his personal assistant and live-in lover. Scott is enthralled by the flamboyant entertainer and is ready to do anything for him, even have plastic surgery to look like him, but is it all going to be worth it? Steven Soderbergh's dark comedy is funny, entertaining and extremely gay, like its protagonist. Sadly it is also a terribly ordinary and predictable show business biopic filled with the usual sex, drugs, debauchery, and heartbreak. Nevertheless, Michael Douglas and Matt Damon both give terrific performances. Richard LaGravenese scripted from the book Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace by Scott Thorson and Alex Thorleifson.
