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  • MOVIE page: Behind the Candelabra (2013)
  • Rate: 7.1/10 total 5,491 votes 
  • Genre: Biography | Drama | Romance
  • Runtime: 118 min
  • Filming Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • Director: Steven Soderbergh
  • Stars: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Eric Zuckerman | See full cast and crew
  • Original Music By: Marvin Hamlisch   
  • Soundtrack: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
  • Plot Keyword: Liberace | Reference To Sonja Henie | Shared Bath | Year 1984 | Homosexual
Writing Credits By:
  • Richard LaGravenese (screenplay)
  • Scott Thorson (book) and
  • Alex Thorleifson (book)

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Goofs: Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The tailor uses the wrong end of the tape to measure Scott's waist during the montage where Liberace takes him shopping for a suit.

Plot: Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted. Full summary » |  »

Story: Scott Thorson, a young gay man raised in foster homes, is introduced to flamboyant entertainment giant Liberace and quickly finds himself in a romantic relationship with the legendary pianist. Swaddled in wealth and excess, Scott and Liberace have a long affair, one that eventually Scott begins to find suffocating. Kept away from the outside world by the flashily effeminate yet deeply closeted Liberace, and submitting to extreme makeovers and even plastic surgery at the behest of his lover, Scott eventually rebels. When Liberace finds himself a new lover, Scott is tossed on the street. He then seeks legal redress for what he feels he has lost. But throughout, the bond between the young man and the star never completely tears. Written byJim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

Produced By:

  • Susan Ekins known as producer
  • Gregory Jacobs known as producer
  • Michael Polaire known as producer
  • Jerry Weintraub known as executive producer

FullCast & Crew:
  • Matt Damon known as Scott Thorson
  • Scott Bakula known as Bob Black
  • Eric Zuckerman known as Lou
  • Eddie Jemison known as Assistant Director
  • Randy Lowell known as Director
  • Tom Roach known as Stunt Actor
  • Shamus Cooley known as Camera Assistant
  • John Smutny known as Sound Mixer
  • Jane Morris known as Rose Carracappa
  • Garrett M. Brown known as Joe Carracappa
  • Michael Douglas known as Liberace
  • Pat Asanti known as George Liberace
  • Debbie Reynolds known as Frances Liberace
  • Casey Kramer known as Dora Liberace
  • Cheyenne Jackson known as Billy Leatherwood
  • Tom Papa known as Ray Arnett
  • Dan Aykroyd known as Seymour Heller
  • James Kulick known as Assistant Stage Manager
  • Bruce Ramsay known as Carlucci
  • Paul Witten known as Make-Up Artist
  • Deborah Lacey known as Gladys
  • Rob Lowe known as Dr. Jack Startz
  • David Koechner known as Adoption Attorney
  • Susan Todd known as Sue
  • Nicky Katt known as Mr. Y
  • Austin Stowell known as Backstage Flirt
  • Francisco San Martin known as Backstage Flirt
  • Boyd Holbrook known as Cary James
  • Anthony Crivello known as Stagehand
  • Mike O'Malley known as Tracy Schnelker
  • Kiff VandenHeuvel known as Scott's Half Brother, Wayne (as Kiff Vanden Heuvel)
  • Nikea Gamby-Turner known as Dorothy
  • Charlotte Crossley known as June
  • Josh Meyers known as Liberace's Attorney
  • Harvey J. Alperin known as Joel Strote (as Harvey Jacob Alperin)
  • Paul Reiser known as Scott's Attorney
  • Jerry Clarke known as Dr. Ronald Daniels
  • Lisa Frantz known as Anchorwoman
  • Shaun T. Benjamin known as Health Department Spokesman (as Shaunt Benjamin)
  • John Philip Kavcak known as Priest at Funeral
  • Kelly Allen known as Young American Dancer (uncredited)
  • Gregg Atwill known as Funeral Mourner (uncredited)
  • Natacha Bachour known as Showgirl (uncredited)
  • Greg Baine known as Patron (uncredited)
  • Cassandra M. Bellantoni known as Hospital Visitor (uncredited)
  • Paul Borst known as Party Guest (uncredited)
  • Lita S. Bowman known as Mourner (uncredited)
  • Barbara Brownell known as Angie Liberace (uncredited)
  • Patty Chong known as Concert Patron (uncredited)
  • Lee Christian known as Sex Club Patron (uncredited)
  • Nathan Collins known as Print Reporter (uncredited)
  • Kass Connors known as Kazarian (uncredited)
  • Russ Cugno known as Mourner (uncredited)
  • Pat Destro known as (uncredited)
  • Jacquelyn Dowsett known as Showgirl (uncredited)
  • Fielding Edlow known as Deposition Reporter (uncredited)
  • Corey Eid known as French Guy #2 (uncredited)
  • Krystal Ellsworth known as Impossible Dream Dancer (uncredited)
  • Kelli Erdmann known as Young American Dancer (uncredited)
  • Derek Ferguson known as Young American (uncredited)
  • Joe Filippone known as Adult Bookstore Patron (uncredited)
  • Jack Fitz known as Midwestern Husband (uncredited)
  • Gladis Giada known as Boogie Woogie Concert Fan (uncredited)
  • Aussie Guevara known as Sex Club Worker (uncredited)
  • Brandon Henschel known as Dancer (uncredited)
  • Doug Hunter known as Print Reporter (uncredited)
  • Lenny Jacobson known as Stage Manager (uncredited)
  • Richard Allan Jones known as Mourner (uncredited)
  • Adam J. Kassel known as Valet (uncredited)
  • Dominique Kelley known as Impossible Dream Dancer (uncredited)
  • David Dustin Kenyon known as Cameraman (uncredited)
  • Kirk Krogstad known as Theatre Stage Hand (uncredited)
  • Kristin Lindquist known as Billy (uncredited)
  • Rachael Markarian known as Showgirl (uncredited)
  • Paul McDade known as Sex Club Worker (uncredited)
  • Scot Michael known as Young American Dancer #1 (uncredited)
  • Kc Monnie known as Young American Dancer (uncredited)
  • Max Napolitano known as Bar Patron (uncredited)
  • Cassidy Noblett known as Show Boy (uncredited)
  • Lance Patrick known as Sex Couple #1 (uncredited)
  • Ferly Prado known as Dancer (uncredited)
  • Mike Jerome Putnam known as On-Air News Reporter (uncredited)
  • Thure Riefenstein known as Maitre d' (uncredited)
  • Joan Riegert known as Concert Fan (uncredited)
  • Ryan Roth II known as Stagehand (uncredited)
  • Stephanie Maura Sanchez known as Second Anchorwoman (uncredited)
  • Jimmy Scanlon known as News Reporter (uncredited)
  • Roby Schinasi known as French Guy #1 (uncredited)
  • Nellie Sciutto known as Reporter (uncredited)
  • Brian Shotwell known as Print Reporter (uncredited)
  • Franklin J. Sterns known as Bookstore Patron (uncredited)
  • Caroline Jaden Stussi known as Startz Surgeon (uncredited)
  • Becca Sweitzer known as Showgirl (uncredited)
  • Trace Taylor known as Stagehand (uncredited)
  • Anna Wendt known as Stagehand (uncredited)
  • Eric Womack known as Bartender (uncredited)

Production Companies:

  • HBO Films



Behind the Candelabra (2013) Review by Armin Callo from Palm Springs - United States
Behind the Candelabra is not a biopic. Although the story revolvesaround the life of Liberace, the film is more than that. It is a lovestory that encompasses universal themes with a surrealistic twist.

It is well crafted by Steven Soderbergh, a veteran director with suchfilms as Traffic, Erin Brockovich and Ocean's Eleven under his belt.And although Soderbergh describes the work as "Alice going down therabbit hole," it is a surprisingly strong film with convincingperformances and a tender, yet out-of-the-box, point of view.

Two of Hollywood's big-name alpha males – Michael Douglas and MattDamon – play the lead roles delivering strong and convincingperformances. It would have been easy to portray the over-the-topflamboyance of Liberace in high camp theatricality. But not here.Douglas is restrained, measured, and deliberate. His Liberace straddlesboth sides of the male persona. Douglas goes from being tender loverand father-protector to the excessive, power-hungry controlling tyrantdriven to an addiction for acquisition: homes, jewelry, dogs, newlovers, and all things Louis Quinze.

Damon's Thorson is both a quintessential 70s male hooker and passivedisco diva. All through the film, he is dazed and awestruck by hissurroundings. As Liberace's latest boy-toy, he basks in the glow ofrococo excess. And he is bewildered and confused when Liberace --moving on to the next conquest – tragically, and predictably, takeseverything away. Always, Thorson seems to be a man to whom thingshappen. He is not a figure who takes control of his surroundings butrather is controlled by them. This passivity is quite surprising in asmuch as the movie is based on a book written by Thorson who ishell-bent on casting himself in the best possible light.

In contrast to the one-sided take of Thorson's book, Soderbergh's filmprovides Thorson with depth and dimension. He is more than a victim. Heactively plays into his victimhood. Soderberg shows Thorson as activelydoing nothing to improve his life or circumstance. Instead of takingfull advantage of his relationship with Liberace, Thorson lives in, andfor, the moment. He piddles away the opportunity to make something ofhimself beyond the rentboy persona. It brings new meaning to the oldFreddy Fender song "Wasted days and wasted nights." At the end, all heends up with is another diet, addiction, a new face and a paltry $95K.

The supporting cast members are equally effective as the leads. Thestandout here is, unquestionably, Rob Lowe as Liberace's plasticsurgeon Dr. Jack Startz. His face is wonderfully plastic and his actingsublime. Scott Bakula is Liberace's mustachioed procurer; Dan Aykroydis his Foster-Grant-wearing manager/henchman; and Debbie Reynolds isLiberace's prosthesized-up-the-ying-yang Polish mother. All submitstrong performances despite brief appearances in almost cameo roles.None of the supporting actors distracts from the focus on the twotragic lovers whose end comes as expectedly as any Shakespeareantragedy.

To convey that 70s and early 80s look and feel, Soderberg seems to haveused old-fashioned film in lieu of going "straight" digital. The movieis bracketed by what appears as grainy home movies. It opens with theLA bar scene and 17-year-old Thorson at his outlying rural foster home.It ends with the melodramatic flourish of Liberace's death in PalmSprings and the resulting saga over the Riverside County coroner'sattempts to autopsy the body despite the family's efforts to keep hisAIDS-related cause of death from public view. The conflict is told vianewsreel storytelling straight out of Orson Well's Citizen Kane.

In between, we are taken on a trip to wonderland. Like riding in amonorail, we are shuttled between houses in Las Vegas, Los Angeles andPalm Springs. We enter rooms upon rooms replete with white paintedpianos, crystal chandeliers and gold-gilt furniture. The journey is amagical mystery tour into a bizarre world inhabited by two larger thanlife figures beset with very ordinary problems. Like everyone else,they face issues of money and power; attraction and rejection; youthand old age; addiction and dysfunction; life and death. And weavingthrough it all, is the all-too-common story of "the next new thing; thenext big fix." I guess in the end, the grass is always greener on theother side. And what we have is never enough.

Soderberg weaves a morality tale where choices have consequences andpeople get exactly what they deserve. In this movie, the consequencesare cruel but quite sober and sensible. There are neither suicides norany type of saccharine sentimentality. And while the pathos could bedeliciously comedic – especially on a story about the avatar of kitschwhen punctuated with high camp – Soderbergh is refreshingly restrained.He tells his story with a firm grip and a cautioned mannerism.

On stage – and in front of the candelabra – Liberace lived a life ofchampagne wishes and caviar dreams. But behind the glitz and theglamour, we glimpse the flawed, all-too-human and imperfect everymanwho is uncomfortable in his skin, seeking miracles from plastic surgeryand sexual hedonism. He is not a hero or anti-hero; victim orvictimizer; predator or prey. He is all and neither. Liberace's life isheroic because he was able to achieve much despite the odds. But hisreal life was lived in darkness cast by the shadow of the lights behindthe candelabra.





Behind the Candelabra (2013) Review by Steve Pulaski from United States
I would not want to be the person shopping around a serious script inHollywood about the life of the famous pianist Liberace. It would bethe toughest of sells to a culture that would likely feel the materialis too dry and the demand too little. A slightly campier script, withluxurious set design and intimate portrayals of characters the publicwouldn't likely know about is what I'd like to get my hands on. Thestory of Liberace is stranger than fiction and dryer, more seriousmaterial could've corrupted its overall goals and ambitions.

The film with the campier script, luxurious set designs, and intimateportrayals is Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra, a wonderful,limitless look at the life of Liberace, an enigma in every sense of theword. In addition to playing many sold-out shows, the man had alovelife like no other at the time, meeting and becoming fast friendswith Scott Thorson, an aspiring veterinarian who was quickly made hislover. Thorson seemed to have a genuine understanding of the lonelinessand lack of friendship Liberace had and provided him with great talks,great compassion, and great sex.

The relationship, however, resulted in drug addiction, intense plasticsurgery, lies, mistrust, and ended with a lawsuit. Soderbergh andwriter Richard LaGravenese don't hesitate to explore this and make itone of the deepest focuses in the picture. The relationships the menhad had the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. The scenes whenthey are together in a hot tub are human and romantic. The scenes whenthey are fighting are heartbreaking because you realize that these menhaven't just come so far to make their relationship work but losingeach other after so long would be detrimental to their self-esteems andegos. They complete each other and that's where the magic is at itsstrongest.

Liberace is played by Michael Douglas in one of the bravest roles ofhis career. So brave and powerful that it's unfortunate that because ofthe film's TV movie status it is ineligible for an Academy Awardnomination. Douglas is an actor who is never conventional with his rolechoice. The same man who played a common-man pushed off a cliff ofsanity, an executive victim to a consuming, real-life game, and aworried father of a drug-addicted daughter is the same man playing amiddle-aged, flamboyant pianist with a love for wonder, music, and men.The diversity in role choice is stunning.

Matt Damon appears at his youngest as Liberace's lover Scott, in anequally conflicted, complex performance. Damon fills the shoes of therole beautifully and effectively, giving off much in the way ofcreative energy and heart as he shows just how stressed and tornThorson must've been in a relationship with someone who truly loved andunderstood him but wanted to manipulate him. Supporting performancesfrom Rob Lowe as Liberace's doctor, prescribing medicines to both himand Thorson and Dan Aykroyd as his manager are terrific and often areseen providing strong comic relief.

For a TV movie to have the cinematography and atmosphere that Behindthe Candelabra does is truly a feature worth nothing. It may not be asexcessive as Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby - I don't expect anything ofthe next two years to be on par with that film - but rarely has a TVmovie achieved such phenomenally vibrant and luscious standards. Theonly thing that could make it better is Soderbergh proving he knows howto work with it and he most certainly does.

HBO seems to be the go-to network for biographical films about figuresthat wouldn't likely make appropriate return in the theaters (Behindthe Candelabra especially considering the summer movie season hasalready hit the ground running). David Mamet, just a few months ago,directed the delightful and shockingly unbiased Phil Spector, withactors like Al Pacino and Helen Mirren receiving top-billing. Seeing asa Liberace biopic is directed by none other than Soderbergh, I wouldn'tbe surprised at seeing a slew of films about eclectic media figuresbeing made and released on HBO in the next few years. Networks thathave the drive and willingness to air these kinds of films are anecessity to the success of film.

Starring: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Rob Lowe, and Dan Aykroyd.Directed by: Steven Soderbergh.





Behind the Candelabra (2013) Review by Jed from Toronto (jed92ca@yahoo.com) from Toronto Ontario
I decided to watch this film on HBO because I thought it would be ahoot - one of those catastrophic and pretentious productions which areso laughable. Within 20 minutes I realized that the film was ratherimportant. Michael Douglas captures the late Liberace's mannerisms andvoice with astonishing ease. He is quite stellar in his performance,and I see him now in a new light. Matt Damon is excellent as Scott, hisprotégé. The personages involved are deeply complex, even if one isonly familiar with the contemporary "National Enquirer" reports onerealizes their is something one can not quite understand about "Lee &Scott's" relationship. Douglas and Damon are brilliant in delving intothese characters. They are unrecognizable, at times, from the familiarroles we all know of them. I think the film well worth watching. As abonus, Matt Damon shows his bum on several occasions, for those who areinterested; if not, one cannot help but be interested in the wonderfulperformances from two of Hollywood's great stars! A courageousundertaking well done indeed!!!






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