Barney's Version Movie (2010) Trailer - Plot synopsis: The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully ...

“Barney’s Version” nabbed 11 Genie awards nominations, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announced Wednesday at simultaneous media conferences in Montreal and Toronto. It’s closely ...

The late Canadian writer Mordecai Richler, best known south of the border for the film version of his 1959 novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, was a bellicose practitioner of Jewish fiction in ...

There's a certain magic to films that champion acting, storytelling, complex characters and even subtlety — the unlikeliest of Hollywood virtues. Hunkering down in the comfort of a warm theater to ...

VENICE (Reuters) - A bittersweet comedy premiering at the Venice film festival brings to the big screen the cult book "Barney's Version," the witty story of a politically incorrect Jewish man spanning ...

So it’s true, Paul Giamatti won a surprise Golden Globe award for his star turn in the new movie, Barney’s Version. The surprise wasn’t that he was awarded – he turns in an excellent performance – but ...

Most men in movies are jerks. The typical Hollywood hero is drunk, disheveled and disloyal. But if he looks like Bradley Cooper, all is forgiven. Paul Giamatti has been an antidote to such pretty-boy ...

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Look for a smackdown between French- and English-Canadian directors at next month's Genies, Canada's film awards. "Barney's Version," with 11 nominations, will face off ...

Stories with jerks as protagonists can be challenging for an audience, but at least you should be able to count on a certain consistency to the jerkiness ... Stories with jerks as protagonists can be ...

Barney’s Version misses every opportunity for raucous, picaresque fun that the book throws its way while squandering a wealth of transatlantic performing talent led by Paul Giamatti. Richler was a ...

The late Canadian writer Mordecai Richler, best known south of the border for the film version of his 1959 novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, was a bellicose practitioner of Jewish fiction in ...