Birdman (2014) This is listed as one of the best movies for 2014. It is also hailed as a comeback movie for Michael Keaton after Batman and his strings of disappointments afterwards. Here he takes the role of a down and out stage actor who had seen better times when he used to be famous acting as 'Birman' in a TV series. Now he has to fight his inner demons including auditory hallucinations and his alter ego in the form his fictitious Birdman character that made him famous. He is still looking for that one theatrical show that would catapult him back to the dizzying heights of stardom. At the same workplace, there is his daughter who is a reformed junkie working with him. They have issues as Keaton did spend enough time with her in her childhood. His ex-wife is moving on in life with a role in Broadway. He has a girlfriend who says she is pregnant and a casual actor brought in to fill in for a role, tries who steals the limelight from him. From a theatrics viewpoint, th...
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