It's not as good as "Adaptation", which is one of my favorite movies of the last couple of years, but this movie is still very good. I don't know what, if anything, in the movie was in the book. I always disliked Barris' shows and avoided them even as a kid, but perhaps it was the unsavory nature of the topic that attracted Kaufman. The acting is all first-rate, and Sam Rockwell is outstanding. (Clooney does a very nice job of directing, too, which surprised me a little.)
The movie is loopy and off-center and quite funny.
The movie is loopy and off-center and quite funny.