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Magic - in which Anthony Hopkins is the craziest fucking guy ever, and people just keep being nice to him be cause he's so damn charming. So, at first Anthony Hopkins plays a ventriloquist named Corky, and he's got a jackass dummy named Fats. His act is good, and a talent agent catches it one night, Burgess Meredith, and they start working together. Corky is seldom seen without Fats, but no one really minds, actors get a lot of leeway. So, Meredith gets Corky a pilot with a TV network, which is literally the best thing that could happen for them, but the network wants Corky to go for a physical before they drop the money for the pilot. Standard operating procedure, Burgess assures Corky. Corks, however, freaks out and takes Fats on a road trip, where he ends up at a lakeside B&B. Turns out he has been in love with the woman who runs this B&B since high school, and they have a great time getting reacquainted while her husband is out of town for the week. Corky keeps Fats with him basically the whole time, leaving him in the cabin while he goes and has sex with Peggy Ann. It is becoming clear that Corky is batshit crazy, because the movie keeps cutting to him in his cabin, yelling and fighting with Fats. The dummy. And the movie keeps doing, like, shot reverse shot, between Fats and Corky, so there's some ambivalence as to whether Corky is crazy or Fats is haunted. When Burgess Meredith shows up at the B&B, having tracked Corky down, because there is a lot of money to be made, and because he's a nice guy. So, he sees Corky arguing with himself and is really nice to him, and tries to make it easy on him to go get some help. Corky, however, is an asshole and he and Fats murder Meredith. Peggy Ann's husband comes home and intimidates Corky into murdering him, and I guess that's where the final reveal is, that Fats isn't real, and Corky is crazy af. As an aside, Hopkins learned ventriloquism for this role, and he is amazing at it.

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