Color Me Kubrick (2005) on Netflix
In 1990s London, Alan Conway introduces himself in pubs as the director Stanley Kubrick. Strangers buy his drinks, hand over money and hope for a part in his next film.
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Plot summary
Alan Conway, a balding alcoholic with a wavering American accent, spends the 1990s in London passing himself off as the reclusive director Stanley Kubrick to people he meets in pubs and other social settings. He knows little about Kubrick's work and looks nothing like him, and he adopts a different manner for each person he meets. Those he deceives include a young fashion designer, the men managing an aspiring heavy metal band, a taxi driver and the owner of a wine bar, who give him money, free food and drinks in exchange for the promise of work on Kubrick's next film. All Conway wants in return is that they settle the bill. Two thugs come looking for him over an unpaid bar tab, at an address he gave as Kubrick's home, which belongs to a wealthy elderly couple.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Color Me Kubrick (2005)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The screenplay grew out of real events: Kubrick's assistant Anthony Frewin received calls and complaints from people who had met Conway while he was impersonating Kubrick and were offered money, gifts or even parts in upcoming films. None of those conned would come forward, so Frewin wrote the accounts into a screenplay.
- The version of 'Midnight, the Stars and You' by Ray Noble and His Orchestra with Al Bowlly is featured during the closing credits of both this film and The Shining (1980), but does not appear on Colour Me Kubrick's soundtrack album.
