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Jun 7, 2019 · Reviews. Framing John DeLorean. Nell Minow June 07, 2019. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The title of “Framing John DeLorean” has two different meanings in this hybrid, mosaic-style story of the man who is now best remembered for the namesake car featured in “ Back to the Future .”
Jun 6, 2019 · ‘Framing John DeLorean’ Review: The Man Who Flew His Car Too Close to the Sun. Mixing documentary and fictionalized re-enactment, a new film about the mythic automaker tells a...
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Jun 7, 2019 · 92% Tomatometer 50 Reviews 64% Audience Score 100+ Ratings The extraordinary life and career of controversial automaker John DeLorean -- from his meteoric rise at General Motors Co. to his ...
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- This engaging look at the maverick carmaker’s life and legacy shows him as both hero and villain to everyone in his orbit.
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By Ryan McCaffrey
Updated: Jun 5, 2019 10:34 pm
Posted: Jun 5, 2019 10:32 pm
I’m particularly drawn to the story of John DeLorean, seeing as how I owned one of the DMC-12 sports cars that bear his name for over a decade. From that experience, I can assure you: rumor, innuendo, myth, and straight-up falsehoods followed John Zachary DeLorean, his company, and his elegant stainless steel-body, gullwing-door cars for years after his death in 2005. Framing John DeLorean offers a compelling, balanced account of both the transcendent accomplishments of the Detroit legend as well as his catastrophic personal and professional failures – told through a clever mix of interviews with those closest to him, real-life archival footage, and dramatic reenactments with Alec Baldwin playing a spot-on DeLorean.
Interestingly, Baldwin is featured as both himself discussing DeLorean – be it in the makeup chair or before or after shooting a scene – and of course in-character as the Detroit-raised carmaker. Sometimes he’s giving his personal insights on how he approached the role, and at others, he gives his opinion on DeLorean, including a revealing personal interaction with him recounted later in the film. Baldwin looks eerily like John in the reenactment scenes thanks to some convincing prosthetic makeup and manages to sound a good bit like him too. He had to in order for the film to work, really, given the movie’s use of archival footage of the real John, and he resoundingly succeeds.
Framing John DeLorean will be quite revelatory to those who only know of him as the man behind the car from the Back to the Future movies. DeLorean’s real life was movie-like – something the film acknowledges. From a young engineer at Packard to a risk-taking success story during his meteoric rise to prominence at Pontiac and General Motors (all fueled by the way he hoodwinked GM executives into greenlighting the GTO and unwittingly kickstarting the Muscle Car Era) to a maverick who started his own car company in a war-torn area of Northern Ireland to his front-page fall in a cocaine-smuggling scandal, DeLorean’s story was larger than life.
Where and how Framing John DeLorean chooses to end its story is a key question the film’s participants themselves ask, and the movie answers it with reverence and a bit of humor. It’s unlikely to be as emotionally affecting to the average viewer as it was to someone who got to “live the dream” for so many years, as the DMC-12’s marketing tagline pu...
May 1, 2019 · Reviews. Apr 30, 2019 8:15pm PT. Tribeca Film Review: ‘Framing John DeLorean’. An absorbing documentary, with Alec Baldwin popping up in dramatic re-enactments, adds new insight to the...
Jun 5, 2019 · Movie Reviews. ‘Framing John DeLorean’: Film Review. Alec Baldwin plays the disgraced entrepreneur in Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce's doc/biopic hybrid 'Framing John DeLorean.' By...
