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Release Date: Apr 17, 2007; Rated: PG; Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller; With: Michael Caine and Mickey Rooney; Distributor: United Artists (MGM)

In this droll caper, Michael Caine is a pulp hack prone to appropriately lush prose (''His face was like a crushed red pepper'') who's hired to ghost ex-Hollywood star Rooney's autobiography. The pleasures in Pulp are director Mike Hodges' shaggy-dog script and Rooney's buoyant performance. Playing a character famed for his Cagneyesque gangsters, the middle-aged actor moves with a youthful ease and crispness, turning shtick (shadowboxing and preening in front of a mirror) into comic gold. It's almost enough to forgive his awful Mr. Yunioshi.
EXTRAS None. B+


Posted Apr 13, 2007
 

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