{"id":96179,"date":"2022-04-25T14:51:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T09:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/how-to-watch-the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent\/"},"modified":"2022-04-25T14:51:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T09:21:59","slug":"how-to-watch-the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/how-to-watch-the-unbearable-weight-of-massive-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Watch “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Much ado has been made about Nicolas Cage\u2019s larger-than-life movies and acting panache. The Oscar winner\u2014 whose cinematic presence has endured throughout four decades \u2014 has headlined countless genres, including B movies-turned-cult classics (\u201cVampire\u2019s Kiss\u201d), action blockbusters (\u201cFace\/Off\u201d), romantic comedies (\u201cMoonstruck\u201d), weighty dramas (\u201cLeaving Las Vegas\u201d), independent projects (\u201cPig\u201d) and trippy indies (\u201cAdaptation.\u201d). It\u2019s this versatility of character portrayals, varying degrees of flamboyant line delivery and an extraordinary<\/a> off-screen persona that have transformed Cage into an unwitting walking, talking (and sometimes yelling<\/a>) meme.<\/p>\n

The memeification of Cage has in and of itself spurred a Cage-ification of pop culture, and that\u2019s the foundation for Lionsgate\u2019s \u201cThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,\u201d which stars Cage as his greatest character yet \u2014 himself. Rather, a fictionalized, off-the-wall and sometimes CGI-produced young version of himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The action-comedy spoof, from director-writer Tom Gormican and executive producer Kevin Etten (who previously collaborated on the short-lived Fox sitcom \u201cGhosted\u201d), sees Cage \u2014 on the edge of bankruptcy \u2014 accept a $1 million offer to attend an \u00fcber-wealthy super-fan\u2019s (Pedro Pascal) birthday party at his agent\u2019s behest (Neil Patrick Harris). But things take a turn when CIA agents (Tiffany Haddish and Ike Barinholtz) recruit him for a special undercover mission, where the ailing actor is forced to deliver the performance of his life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cUnbearable Weight\u201d is a blast of a caper that beckons the viewer to sit back, buckle in and throw their hands up for its frenzied rollercoaster ride. Without further dallying, here\u2019s everything you need to know about how to watch the film.<\/p>\n

Where can I watch \u201cThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent\u201d?<\/h2>\n
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The film premiered in theaters April 22 after a critically acclaimed world premiere at this year\u2019s South by Southwest film festival March 12. <\/p>\n

Currently, \u201cMassive Talent\u201d is only available in theaters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When will \u201cThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent\u201d be streaming?<\/h2>\n

Lionsgate is the distributor behind the film, and given its acquisition of Starz, it\u2019s likely that \u201cMassive Talent\u201d will come to the streaming platform at a later date in 2022. Prior to that, the movie will likely have a VOD rent date in the early summer, judging by the timeline of other Lionsgate releases.<\/p>\n

Who else is in \u201cThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent\u201d cast?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In addition to Cage, Haddish, Harris, Pascal and Barinholtz, \u201cUnbearable Weight\u201d features Sharon Horgan and Lily Sheen (who play Cage\u2019s wife and daughter, respectively), Paco Le\u00f3n, Alessandra Mastronardi and Jacob Scipio. The film also includes a cameo appearance from Demi Moore.<\/p>\n

OK, I know what the movie is about, but how did \u201cThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent\u201d actually come about?<\/h2>\n

\u201cMassive Talent\u2019s\u201d official website boasts the simple title of \u201cNick Cage Movie<\/a>,\u201d so how did its story actually come about? The actor himself, also a producer on the film, revealed<\/a> to The Hollywood Reporter that he initially \u201cwanted no part of it\u201d and turned down the offer from Gormican \u201cthree or four times\u201d before an impassioned letter from the director made him reconsider.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no muscle in my body that told me I should play a character named Nick Cage, it was absolute horror,\u201d he later told Variety<\/a>. \u201cHowever, the director wrote me a very intelligent, sensitive letter, and in that letter I knew he was a true film enthusiast that likes some of the earlier work. He wanted to make a movie that was about people, not about caricatures or cartoons.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Much ado has been made about Nicolas Cage\u2019s larger-than-life movies and acting panache. The Oscar winner\u2014 whose cinematic presence has endured throughout four decades \u2014 has headlined countless genres, including B movies-turned-cult classics (\u201cVampire\u2019s Kiss\u201d), action blockbusters (\u201cFace\/Off\u201d), romantic comedies (\u201cMoonstruck\u201d), weighty dramas (\u201cLeaving Las Vegas\u201d), independent projects (\u201cPig\u201d) and trippy indies (\u201cAdaptation.\u201d). It\u2019s this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":96180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1650878520_How-to-Watch-The-Unbearable-Weight-of-Massive-Talent.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}