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HBO Film:  Behind the Candelabra

Like most biopics, the film starts fairly interesting and quickly falls into the same, well-tread, predictable rhythms of downfall, pain, losing everything and finding one small moment of reckoning at the end.  If you'd already knew the story of Liberace trying to make a young lover get plastic surgery to look like a young version of himself, you know the most interesting and weird part of the story already.  My biggest irritation with the story was that the whole thing was utterly predictable.  Many biopics fall into these same patterns and why I really, really, do not like this genre.

Rob Lowe gives a standout small performance as a creepy plastic surgeon.  Some cool directorial flashes, to be expected by Soderburgh.  Found the script rather dull.  No reason the movie needed to exist today -- felt like it should have been made 10-15 years ago -- and it wouldn't surprise me if this was when it was written.