The dizzying comic energy and intellectual vigor of Mordecai Richler’s 1997 satire have largely been drained from director Richard J. Lewis’ agreeable but inevitably lesser version of “Barney’s ...

So far the year's best title goes to the wry drama “Barney's Version,” so direct is its meaning and yet so elusive is its promise. The film, based on a novel by acclaimed Canadian writer Mordecai ...

Booze, drugs and rock ’n’ roll — that about sums up hard-partying Boogie, Scott Speedman’s character in the Golden Globe-winning “Barney’s Version.” Speedman, 35, plays an aspiring writer and pal of ...

'BARNEY'S VERSION': Paul Giamatti and Dustin Hoffman star. When Barney Panofsky’s rakish friend Boogie tells him, “I’ll never miss any of your weddings,” the irony isn’t far behind. Already once ...

Mordecai Richler was among Canada's most prolific writers, a gifted man with a knack for creating eccentric characters he made us care about despite their many flaws. He was nominated for an Academy ...

A middle-tier marriage drama distinguished by an excellent Paul Giamatti. Richler’s tome takes the form of Barney’s memoir (written in response to a nemesis’ slanderous allegations), allowing the ...

LITTLE ROCK — I do not expect to convince more than a few of you to go see Barney’s Version, which seems to me a small miracle of a movie, but I believe that those of you who do go see it, after ...

WEDDING DAZE Father and son tie one on as Giamatti’s character ties the knot in this adaptation of Richler’s final novel. Barney’s Version is categorized by its creators as a comedy-drama, but it’s ...

Throughout Hollywood’s golden age rarely did character actors graduate into leading roles. Frank McHugh and Mary Wickes were almost always the buddy or the maid in studio features. That really started ...

It's no surprise it took 13 years to bring Mordecai Richler's last novel, Barney's Version, to the screen. The book, with its erudite, unreliable narrator, who is justifying his life through a fog of ...

Movies, which respond so easily to the sudden breaking and reforming of time, often struggle with the sheer mass of the life tale, be it real or imagined, and the literary structure of Richler’s book ...