The Great Buck Howard, 2009

Director: Sean McGinly
Starring: Colin Hanks; John Malkovich; Emily Blunt
IMDB Link:  The Great Buck Howard

sez says: I guess if you are Tom Hanks son you get to make a movie--but that won't make it a good movie. This was tripe, not funny, boring and did I say dumb? that too. Enough already of the young man searching for life doing something dad doesn't want him to do.  We all know what happens in real life we don't need to be bothered by it at the movies if you don't have anything to add to the all too well known story. And sonny boy making his career choice to be following around a washed-up, and frequently abusive "illusionist" isn't a new spin on that old saw.

mjc says:  Malkovich is always interesting to watch, even when his character in this movie is repetitious and banal.  And, while nepotism in the movies, like anywhere else, is chancy, particularly in the case of Colin Hanks, the genes did not prove themselves across to the next generation.