From the Director of Men in Black, The Addams Family, and Get Shorty Barry Sonnenfeld's philosophy is, "Regret the Past. Fear the Present. Dread the Future." He blames his mother. Told in Barry Sonnenfeld's unmistakable voice, Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker is a laugh-out-loud memoir about coming of age in a world teeming with neurotic and dangerous characters. Raised by parents he describes as the most narcissistic humans ever to draw breath, constantly threatened with suicide by his over-protective mother, disillusioned by the father he worshiped, and abused by a demonic relative, Sonnenfeld somehow went on to become one of Hollywood's most successful producers and directors. Written with poignant insight and real-life irony, the book follows Sonnenfeld from childhood as a French horn player, through his miserable undergraduate college years, and on to graduate film school at NYU, where he...
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From the Director of Men in Black, The Addams Family, and Get ShortyBarry Sonnenfeld's philosophy is, "Regret the Past. Fear the Present. Dread the Future." He blames his mother.
Told in Barry Sonnenfeld's unmistakable voice, Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker is a laugh-out-loud memoir about coming of age in a world teeming with neurotic and dangerous characters. Raised by parents he describes as the most narcissistic humans ever to draw breath, constantly threatened with suicide by his over-protective mother, disillusioned by the father he worshiped, and abused by a demonic relative, Sonnenfeld somehow went on to become one of Hollywood's most successful producers and directors.
Written with poignant insight and real-life irony, the book follows Sonnenfeld from childhood as a French horn player, through his miserable undergraduate college years, and on to graduate film school at NYU, where he...