The Great Buck Howard

About The Great Buck Howard

When a law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant he unknowingly signs on to work for a belligerent has-been magician struggling to resurrect his career. This leads to a journey across the country staging the comeback of a lifetime.

The Great Buck Howard is a 2008 comedy film directed by Sean McGinly. At 90 minutes long, it arrived in January 2008.

The film is filed under career, comeback, magic show, and drop-out.

John Malkovich takes the lead as Buck Howard, Colin Hanks as Troy Gable, Emily Blunt as Valerie Brennan, and Ricky Jay as Gil Bellamy. The screenplay is by Sean McGinly. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and fuboTV.

TMDB voters put it at 6.0 out of 10 across 284 votes and it carries a PG rating.