'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Biopics?
Well. Since Robin Williams doesn't remotely resemble Patch Adams (who is a) cranktastic! and b) not particularly funny, but an inspiration none the less), I'd have to go with Sissy Spacek as The Coalminer's Daughter. Broke my heart.
Low-retta Lynn. There is a character.
While not a biopic, I loved Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday.
I'm not much of a fan of biopics as a rule, but John Hurt in The Naked Civil Servant and Eric Bana in Chopper are both pretty fabulous.
Bana is amazing in Chopper.
How about Robert Downey Jr. in Chaplin ?
According to the Vancouver Sun, some fellow named Josh Whedon is getting involved with the Wonder Woman movie. And you can tell you're an overly obsessed Buffista when find yourself yelling "it's Joss!" Or is Josh his evil twin?
Good biopics: My Left Foot, the one where Ewan MacGregor's James Joyce (Nora I think it's called)...I'll think of others.
Because Landau's Lugosi performance may be the best I've ever seen by a male actor.
Nodding in complete agreement with Matt over this one.
Since Robin Williams doesn't remotely resemble Patch Adams
How about what's his name; Adrian Cronour (or however you pronounce it). Good Morning Vietnam.
And yeah, Landau is gawdlike.
Angela Bassett as Tina Turner and Lawrence Fishburne as Ike Turner. Neither of them looked too much like the RL person, but they just blew me away by their performances.
For one who looked a lot like the RL person and still gave a great performance, Gary Busey as Buddy Holly was wonderful.
Frederic Forrest as the title character in the movie, Larry. He plays a man who was abandoned by his mother as a baby and grew up in an institution for the mentally disabled. There was nothing wrong with him but because he grew up around retarded people, he emulated their behaviour. It was a social worker, played by Tyne Daly, who finally realised the truth and eventually he was able to leave the institution and live like a non-disabled person. Amazing true story and amazing performances by Forrest and Daly.
Do Gods & Monsters (the guy who directed Frankenstein) and The Whole Wide World (Robert E. Howard) count? Or are they just movies who portray real people at a certain stage in their lives?