Behind the Candelabra
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his teenage lover, Scott Thorson which deteriorates when Liberace takes other bedmates and Thorson becomes addicted to drugs is recounted.
6 April 1944, USA
5 March 1950, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
24 November 1971, Palm Springs, California, USA
2 October 1982, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, USA
31 October 1966, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1 September 1981, Prestonsburg, Kentucky, USA
9 October 1954, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
6 August 1966, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
3 March 1962, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
17 March 1964, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
7 November 1948, USA
1 July 1952, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
31 December 1966, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
24 October 1986, Denver, Colorado, USA
September 26, 2013
Douglas made his name playing powerful, morally questionable men, and this is a clever addition to the canon.
May 28, 2013
Witty, briskly paced and consistently entertaining.
May 27, 2013
This is one of the strangest and strongest TV movies in memory.
September 25, 2013
Michael Douglas transforms himself into the Las Vegas entertainer with style and, most of all, believability. Liberace was larger-than-life to say the least, and it would be easy to go the SNL route with a character by painting him with broad strokes.
June 27, 2014
As deeply entertaining and creative as it is socially enlightening.
June 04, 2013
It's both a romp and uncomfortably real.
May 28, 2013
Buffed to a typical HBO high gloss, Candelabra is a visual feast. It shines brightest in those moments where it captures the rhythms of a relationship in its first blush of affection and its seemingly inevitable collapse.
February 11, 2014
Douglas seems to be having fun playing such a flaming swishy character and hams it up.
September 05, 2013
One of [Soderbergh's] strengths is in the way he subverts traditional narratives and finds interesting moments that other directors wouldn't think twice about.
May 28, 2013
The story is told less as a cause-and-effect narrative than as a collection of incidents that add up to something with a crushing emotional weight.
September 18, 2013
Soderbergh and LaGravenese go deep beneath this voyeuristic fascination with wealth, fame, and the secret lives of celebrities.
May 28, 2013
The stunning and quite intimate performances by Michael Douglas and Matt Damon are award-worthy.
