Fool's Paradise (2023) on Netflix
A mute man leaves a mental hospital and lives on the streets. A producer hires him as a stand-in for a movie star, and a publicist calls him Latte Pronto.
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- Netflix1.7/5
- IMDb4.7/107,848 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes22%
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Plot summary
John Doe cannot speak and has the mind of a small child. When the state stops paying for his care, he leaves a mental hospital and lives on the streets. A producer making a film about Billy the Kid is angry that the actor Sir Tom Bingsley will not come out of his trailer. To save time and money, the producer hires a stand-in who looks like Bingsley, choosing John Doe after seeing him sell oranges. Lenny, a publicist who has kept no client since he came to Los Angeles, takes the man's name to be Latte Pronto.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fool's Paradise (2023)
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- Fool's Paradise went back for a week of reshoots in December 2021 after Charlie Day wrote 27 extra screenplay pages on the advice of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who also told him to drop the original title El Tonto.
