The Great Buck Howard 2008 Watch Free in HD

Troy Gable drops out of law school to pursue his dream of becoming a writer in Los Angeles. To support himself, he takes a job as an assistant to the fading mentalist 'The Great' Buck Howard. Buck begin to regain his show's luster...

Genre:

Comedy, Drama

Actors:

John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, Ricky Jay, Steve Zahn, Tom Hanks, Griffin Dunne, Debra Monk, Adam Scott, Patrick Fischler, Wallace Langham, ...»

Director:

Sean McGinly

Country:

United States

Release:

2008

IMDb:

6.4

Quality:

Duration:

90 min

Orlando Sentinel

A pleasant enough comedy in the My Favorite Year mold.

April 08, 2009

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Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Sleight of hand is among a magician's greatest assets, but even the most gullible rubes will be able to follow most of writer-director Sean McGinly's telegraphed moves in this agreeable but lightweight film...

April 10, 2009

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Deadspin

It's a light, weightless, mostly pointless show business homage, and you're likely to forget it about it halfway through.

June 22, 2013

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Film.com

This is not a rare movie, but it does have a warm red center. It's likable, and its appeal grows as it recovers from a shaky start and finds its footing.

April 09, 2009

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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

By no means a great film, but it makes up in modest pleasantness what it lacks in weightiness.

April 15, 2009

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Minneapolis Star Tribune

Buck Howard is Malkovich's show. When's he's off the screen, the film sputters, but while he's on-camera, it's magical.

March 27, 2009

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Creative Loafing

A slight yet satisfying show-biz tale.

April 22, 2009

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Houston Chronicle

A modest snapshot of a performer.

April 03, 2009

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Newsday

The film feels painfully thin.

April 02, 2009

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

...a charming, pleasantly diverting movie that is hard to dislike.

April 10, 2009

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Times-Picayune

The problem isn't so much in the film's clumsy, hand-holding narration, or in its forced quirkiness. Rather it's that its most interesting character -- the one they named the thing after -- isn't the main character.

July 24, 2009

indieWire

Malkovich's titular mentalist is the primary focus of attention%u2014and sadly the source of many of the film's unique problems. In a career of strange performances, Malkovich turns in a true curiosity here%u2014and maybe it's because he is not, for once,

August 08, 2009

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