Barney's Version

Mordecai Richler wrote a number of books focusing on Canada's Jewish community. Most notable was "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", filmed starring Richard Dreyfuss. Years later he brought about "Barney's Version", which eventually got filmed starring Paul Giamatti and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Makeup.

Much like Duddy Kravitz, the protagonist here makes his own rules. In fact, I was reading about Mordecai Richler and it turns out that what Richler based Barney's major action in this movie on what he personally did. Quite a rough story, but a good one. It's not a great movie, but I recommend it.