The Comedian (2016)
Storyline
An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother and his wife, Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he meets Harmony, the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul, and the two find inspiration in one another, resulting in surprising consequences.
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Cast
Craig Castaldo, Danny DeVito, Leslie Mann, Harvey Keitel, Cloris Leachman, Lois Smith, Billy Crystal, Robert De Niro, Jim Norton, Happy Anderson, Barbara Ann Davison, Marylouise Burke, Jimmie Walker, Susan Blackwell, Charles Grodin, Mark Axelowitz, Dov Davidoff, Patti LuPone, Edie Falco, Lucy DeVito, Hannibal Buress, Gilbert Gottfried, Teddy Coluca, Veronica Ferres, Bill Boggs, Marc Bicking, Abigail Friend, Brett Butler, Jessica Kirson, Freddie Roman, Stewie Stone, Greer Barnes, Sheng Wang, Ryan Hamilton, Aida Rodríguez, Nick Di Paolo, Rebecca Kling, Jack Ricardo Miller, Estee Adoram, Brooke Alexandra, Aaron Ayhan, Michael Birnberg, José Báez, Lyman Chen, Richard R. Corapi, Stephanie Corbett, Savvy Crawford, Ray Crisara, Barbara Danicka, Karin de la Penha, Kevin Dohrenwend, Michael-Scott Druckenmiller, Sarah Fearon, Michael Fischetti
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Reviews
60
The storyline does get frayed towards the end...but that’s not really the point; as long as you’re here for the dick jokes.
60
The acting in the film is outstanding down to some of the smallest parts, and here director Taylor Hackford (who hasn’t had a major hit in several years) deserves considerable credit for guiding these performers.
50
You’ll come away from this film remembering some of the better moments, and a few of the quieter interactions between the characters, but they’ll be mostly overpowered by the stench of everything else.
50
Even with a bona fide icon at its center, The Comedian doesn’t dig deep enough to add anything substantial to the subgenre.
50
There is a sense of exhaustive familiarity that permeates throughout Taylor Hackford’s new dramedy The Comedian.
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