Jay Kelly movie review: George Clooney and Adam Sandler deliver the goods | Movie-review News
Jay Kelly movie review: “When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession,” said James Carville. He should know, being a political consultant to, among others, one of those earliest crowd pleasers, former US president Bill Clinton. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO So should Jay Kelly (Clooney) who, as his manager Ron (Sandler) tells him, is the last of the old-time movie stars. The kind who were never too young to be “boys”, and will never be too old to be “elderly”; the kind with silver and not grey hair (even if a tad embellished), giving them an added layer of halo; and the kind with a million-wattage smile that lights up a room, or in Kelly’s case, an entire train. So what ails Jay Kelly? Here is where this film with its talented cast, led by its acclaimed director Baumbach, disappoints. It turns out there is little that is pulling Kelly down apart from the usual – the “loneliness”, the “regret”, the “emptiness of stardom”, bringing with it an estranged family and, in the course …
