In 2009 Bridges starred with George Clooney in The Men Who Stare at Goats, a comedy that centres on a secret U.S. Army unit trained to use psychic powers.
"The Men Who Stare at Goats," a comedy from Overture Films starring George Clooney and Jeff Bridges, was third with about $13 million.
For Shannon DeVido, the star and creator of the acclaimed comedy series STARE AT SHANNON, bringing viewers true-to-life moments and stories from the perspective of people with disabilities through her own humorous experiences in each episode, is the biggest key to the success of her series.
After playing a political operative in the HBO television movie Recount (2008), a drama set in the aftermath of the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Spacey appeared in the feature film The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009), a comedy about U.S. soldiers trained to use psychic powers.
(Yesterday, instead of driving to the beach to hang out with my A-girls and their comedy tattoos, I stared at the screen of my MacBook, tilted waaaaaaay back, all arms-crossed and "So, are we going to do this, or….?") However, the one upside to all that is the option to take your weekend whenever you want.
The Vail, CO native is generating buzz for stealing scenes away from Hollywood elite players George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges and Ewan McGregor in the upcoming comedy, The Men Who Stare at Goats.
Zac Efron – he of the mid-distance squint-stare and fleeting charm – stars in the comedy about dating and it arrived in third place on $9m from 2,809 sites through Focus Features.
The films attracting the most coverage over the weekend were military-intelligence satire The Men Who Stare at Goats and Jason Reitman's long-haul comedy Up in the Air, both starring George Clooney, along with the Coen brothers' A Serious Man.
THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS ($29.98; Anchor Bay) -- This George Clooney comedy is based on the true-ish stories of the US military's exploration of psychic abilities and the paranormal as potential weapons for war.
In the third episode of the new season, Uncle Junior, now almost senile, stares at the bald, bespectacled Larry David on the HBO comedy "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and thinks he is seeing himself.
