Based on the life of the Amazing Kreskin, Buck Howard is a magician (excuse me, mentalist) is down on his luck. And to the audience, it's kind of funny. His life is, for lack of a cornier term, wacky.
Howard (John Malkovich) recounts his old days as a mentalist and the times he spent with celebrities from Johnny Carson to George Takei. Troy (Colin Hanks) is a law school dropout who is defying the logic of his father (Tom Hanks) to stay in school, even though he won't be happy. Troy follows his dreams and moves to LA and finds a job as the new road manager for the Great Buck Howard. He is in charge of operations of the various shows that Howard performs in different cities. As Howard becomes more eccentric, Troy starts losing his will to work for him and wants to set out on his own.
This movie proves that comedies don't need to be 2 hours laugh riots. This was a very short, mildly funny comedy that had a good amount of heart to it. The characters seemed genuine and not wacky for the sake of wacky. Hanks and Malkovich had a nice chemistry but the scene stealer was Steve Zahn, who plays a Cincinatti show coordinator. I do recommend this. It won't take much of your time.
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