(EW.com) -- No one wants a Liberace biopic to be subtle. You want the director to don a puffy-sleeved man-blouse and spell out the drama in rhinestones. You want the camera to linger on the peacock-feathered pianos, the velveteen ''royal throne'' toilets, and, of course, that white fox-fur coat — the only coat in the world with its own chauffeur. And you'll get all of that in Steven Soderbergh's "Behind the Candelabra," which casts Michael Douglas as the Vegas legend and Matt Damon as his much younger lover Scott Thorson, whose memoir of their tumultuous five-year relationship inspired the film.
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Michael Douglas plays Liberace and Matt Damon Scott Thorson in "Behind the Candelabra"
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Thorson's memoir of their five year relationship inspired the film
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Steven Soderbergh directs
Despite the stranger details of their courtship — say, the fact that @placeholder had Thorson undergo plastic surgery to look more like him, or that he offered to adopt his young paramour — their love feels as banal as any married couple's, right up until the end, when Thorson sues Liberace for palimony.