Adapted from Mordecai Richler’s fictional autobiography by Barney Panofsky, “Barney’s Version” tells the life story of a thrice-married Canadian soap opera producer suspected of murdering ...

It's no surprise it took 13 years to bring Mordecai Richler's last novel, Barney's Version, to the screen. The book, with its erudite, unreliable narrator, who is justifying his life through a fog ...

Barney Panofsky appears in several Richler stories as something of the author's alter ego and Barney's Version, published in 1997, turned out to be his last novel.

Meanwhile, in counterpoint to Barney's gnarled existence, his startlingly direct, retired-cop father (Dustin Hoffman) lives a carefree life, loving his son, warts and all.

Barney's Version earned critical acclaim and recognition from the Oscars and Golden Globes, but the creative minds who spent years labouring over the film were disappointed by how many people ...

Canadian producer Robert Lantos was smart to world premiere the long-gestating Barney’s Version at the Venice Film Festival instead of home-town Toronto; the book sold over over 700,000 copies ...

Barney’s Version has too much plot for its own good (and I haven’t even included the parts about Barney’s father, a pugnacious retired cop played by Dustin Hoffman). There’s not enough ...

The unmistakable voice of Mordecai Richler comes to us in Barney's Version, a raunchy yet tender account of a 67-year-old man's look back over his life — a life that includes plenty of bad ...

What's it all about, Barney? Richard J Lewis's adaptation of Mordecai Richler's novel Barney's Version is about many things, but mostly it's about the way Paul Giamatti can make even the worst ...

Barney Panofsky is alone in his apartment in Montreal. He can't sleep because he can't remember the name of the thing you strain spaghetti with.

SONY PICTURESDustin Hoffman, right, and Paul Giamatti play a father and son in "Barney's Version." There are three versions to every story, as the old movie mogul used to say. My version, your ...