One of my favorite comedy actors is Charlie Day and I was really excited for his directorial debut Fool’s Paradise back in 2023. However because of its poor reviews and the fact it never released in the UK, I never saw it… until this weekend, when I discovered it had been added to Prime Video.
Day stars in Fool’s Paradise as a child-like mute man who’s kicked out of his mental hospital into the streets of Los Angeles, where he’s discovered due to bearing a resemblance to an unruly method actor and becomes a stand-in for the man. Quickly his career blossoms and then bottoms out in what’s clearly a whistle-stop satire of the Hollywood movie business, as he builds a friendship with a down-on-his-luck publicist.
