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An Actor Prepares
After suffering a heart attack, a hard-drinking actor drives across the country with his estranged son for one last adventure.
10 June 1949, Newport News, Virginia, USA
May 15, 1977 in Ruleville, Mississippi, USA
30 May 1970, Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 30, 2018
One keeps hoping director Steve Clark, who penned the script with Thomas Moffett, would plot a few unexpected turns along the way.
August 30, 2018
Are all fathers and their grown sons estranged? Does every road trip movie have to be filled with quirky characters and colorful detours? Judging by An Actor Prepares and so many other movies of its ilk, the answer to all of these is yes.
August 31, 2018
The characters are so off-putting that our time spent with them quickly devolves into an endurance test.
August 30, 2018
Irons is clearly overjoyed to have a chance to break out of Serious Actor mode and have some fun at the expense of the master thespians he has had the chance to observe.