The filmmakers promoted this as a "series of short interviews with Stanley Kubrick's younger brother, Maury." Wouldn't you want to go see this film? I was in like a motherfucker. Who knew Kubrick even had a brother.

This was a great Park City marketing ploy because the film is actually a fake, a spoof, a mocumentary. It isn't Kubrick's brother. It's an actor who looks like he might be Kubrick's brother doing a series of basically unfunny, faux interviews. It's dumb. It's a wasted opportunity.

Even though I was "shined" into going to the film, I would have been happy with a funny "satire." But there's just nothing funny here. After making Maury a loser who tries to pretend he's a somebody, the film goes off on a stupid tangent about the filmmakers catching him in lies and then trying to... Oh, fuck it, it just goes to a place that doesn't matter. It's rather dull and lame.

The film is in black and white and seems to have been mostly improvised.

On the good side: The film has one of the funniest references to Neil Diamond I have ever heard.

And then, on the bad side, as you can imagine from the title, there's a stupid reference to "A Clockwork Orange."

Much like "Eyes Wide Shut," "A Clockwork Maury" is a bad film that can't live up to it's hype.

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