The Interview (2014)

A producer on a low-stakes celebrity talk show wants to do more important work. When they find out Kim Jong-un is a fan, they chase and land an interview. This, in turn, gets them recruited by the CIA to assassinate the North Korean leader.

James Franco is truly hilarious as the impressionable host Dave Skylark. Easily the funniest segment is the first one, in which Eminem casually reveals his homosexuality on the show. But Franco delivers consistently, even though the movie eventually runs out of ideas.

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