In his new film. Kevin Costner plays Earl Brooks, a successful business and family-man who is able to keep his murderous alter ego, played by William Hurt, at bay until a photographer played by Dane Cook sees him commit a crime.

“It’s a movie that’s a perfect storm of pressure,” Costner told The Early Show co-anchor Hannah Storm. “Has an (alter)-ego banging on him. He has Dane Cook, kind of a wanna-be, who is, in a way, more insidious.”

Serial killer movies are not the usual kind of films Costner makes and he said he won’t even go see them. He chose “Mr. Brooks,” which also stars Demi Moore as a detective working the case, because he said it has “some interesting entertainment value.”

“This one had this weird thing where you found yourself, I think, laughing appropriately,” he said. “And yet you understood why you were laughing. And I think you end up with a lot of empathy. And so, for me, this movie’s not any different than ‘Field of Dreams’ in a way. It’s just, hopefully, an American classic.

Well, from the reviews that “Mr. Brooks” is getting it doesn’t have entrainment value, and is definitely not an American classic.

More photos from the pre-screening of Mr. Brooks are after the jump.

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