Man on the Moon

(1999)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 2,042 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, History

Year: 1999

Runtime: 118 мин

Country: United States of America, Germany

Director: Милош Форман

Cast: Джим Керри, Дэнни Де Вито, Courtney Love, Пол Джаматти, Винсент Скьявелли, Peter Bonerz, Jerry Lawler, Джерри Беккер, Leslie Lyles, Greyson Erik Pendry

Plot

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

A biographical film on the late comedian Andy Kaufman. Kaufman, along with his role on Taxi (1978), was famous for being the self-declared Intergender Wrestling Champion of the world. After beating women time and time again, Jerry Lawler (who plays himself in the movie), a professional wrestler, got tired of seeing all of this and decided to challenge Kaufman to a match. In most of the matches the two had, Lawler prevailed with the piledriver, which is a move by spiking an opponent head-first into the mat. One of the most famous moments in this feud was in the early 80s when Kaufman threw coffee on Lawler on [error], got into fisticuffs with Lawler, and proceeded to sue NBC.