Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

“Some things are better left top secret.”

Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell) is a rising television producer when a recruiter named Jim Byrd (George Clooney) offers him a second job, training him as a covert operative for the CIA. By day he builds game shows, and by night he travels abroad on missions he can tell no one about. Clooney, directing for the first time from a Charlie Kaufman script, plays Barris's own claims straight and leaves it to us whether to believe him.