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Film review: The Disaster Artist

James Franco courts catastrophe by telling the story of a notorious movie flop. Linda Marric is enchanted by the result

December 1, 2017 17:13
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2 min read

It takes a certain amount of skill to take one of the worst, if not the worst movie ever made and turn the story behind its making into one the funniest, warmest and most tragic love stories ever told.

Luckily for cinemagoers, that is exactly what James Franco has managed to achieve with his latest directorial outing The Disaster Artist.

Based on actor Greg Sestero’s book of the same name, The Disaster Artist is a frank account about the making of The Room, a film which since its release in 2003 has gained global cult status, but sadly for all the wrong reasons, much to the dismay of its eccentric director Tommy Wiseau.          

The story starts in San Francisco in the late ‘90s when Greg (Dave Franco), a fresh faced wannabe actor barely out of his teens, meets Tommy (James Franco), a bigger than life gothic figure with long dark hair and a thick eastern European accent. Soon the two strike up an unlikely friendship and decide to move together to LA to star in movies.