Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs Of A Neurotic Filmmaker
by Barry Sonnenfeld
Buy on AmazonFilm and television director Barry Sonnenfeld's outrageous and hilarious memoir traces his idiosyncratic upbringing in New York City, his breaking into film as a cinematographer with the Coen brothers, and his unexpected career as the director behind such huge film franchises as The Addams Family and Men in Black, and beloved work like Get Shorty, Pushing Daises, and A Series of Unfortunate Events. Barry Sonnenfeld's philosophy is, "Regret the Past. Fear the Present. Dread the Future." Told in his unmistakable voice, Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother is a laugh-out-loud memoir about coming of age.…
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"Barry Sonnenfeld has directed entertaining (though not always critically acclaimed) films including “The Addams Family” and the first three “Men in Black” movies. But as listeners of “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” know, he’s also an engaging storyteller. In his memoir, Sonnenfeld is both hilarious and tragic as he talks about working with the Coen brothers, surviving a plane crash and growing up with a cousin who sexually abused him. Somehow the combination works: Sonnenfeld’s breezy style engages us and makes us believe, as Will Smith has joked, that if Barry Sonnenfeld can be a director, anyone can."
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