John Malkovich Should Have Replaced Cusack!

Malkovich looks more suited to a Lenin film actually.

i thought cusack did a great job!

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Nice to see someone agrees with me on this.

John Cusack's popularity as an actor has got to be one of the great cosmic mysteries of my lifetime.

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How can you say he was mediocre? I think he was who made the film work. They could have chosen some other actors as well but he developed on screen what he had to: the wounded art dealer who had been a painter before the war but was disabled for good. Since he couldn't move on with painting, he remained near art where he liked to be. He could have turned into a monster like Hitler did but he didn't and that was one of the main messages of the film. How two men who went through the same tragedy (in fact Rothman suffered more than Hitler, he lost his arm as well, losing all of his capability to fulfill his dreams) and digested / not digested it. He could have also become an art dealer killing young artists' dream e.g. by discouraging them but he didn't. In fact, he supported them, didn't he? Here lies one of the great points of the film. Those differences between the two men. And he didn't have to play charming: it was not a love story...

Better yet, Malkovich being puppeteered by Cusack from inside of his head.

I'm no fan of Cusack, but he did a very solid job here.

When I'm gone I would like something to be named after me. A psychiatric disorder, for example.

If anyone was miscast it was hitler