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Masked and Anonymous

Masked and Anonymous
Masked and Anonymous poster1.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Larry Charles
Produced by Jeff Rosen
Written by Bob Dylan
Rene Fontaine
Starring Bob Dylan
Jeff Bridges
John Goodman
Penélope Cruz
Luke Wilson
Jessica Lange
Music by Bob Dylan
Cinematography Rogier Stoffers
Edited by Pietro Scalia
Luis Alvarez y Alvarez
Production
company
Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics
Release date
  • July 24, 2003 (2003-07-24)
Running time
112 minutes
Country United States
United Kingdom
Language English
Box office $546,106

Masked and Anonymous is a 2003 comedy-drama film directed by Larry Charles. The film was written by Larry Charles and Bob Dylan, the latter under the pseudonym "Sergei Petrov". It stars Dylan alongside a star-heavy cast, including John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Penélope Cruz, Val Kilmer, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Lange, Luke Wilson, Angela Bassett, Bruce Dern, Cheech Marin, Ed Harris, Chris Penn, Steven Bauer, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Paul Chan, Christian Slater and Fred Ward.

An iconic rock legend, Jack Fate (Bob Dylan), is bailed out of prison to perform a one-man benefit concert for a decaying future North American society. The film touches on many subjects from the futility of politics, the confusion of loosely strung government conspiracies, and the chaos created by both anarchy and Nineteen Eighty-Four-styled totalitarianism. It further reflects on life, dreams, and God's place in a seemingly increasingly chaotic world.

In some ways, the film is political: it describes how Fate sees the political landscape (people fighting for no reason, a nation without hope, governments that cannot be trusted) but at the same time Fate makes it clear that he "was always a singer and maybe no more than that". He produces no solutions to any of the problems the film presents. Rather, he makes it clear that he "stopped trying to figure everything out a long time ago."


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