
A young stand-up comedian finds his burgeoning career threatened when he teams with a veteran comedy superstar.
2006-03-09
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The dark side of comedy.
0.0At a prestigious film school where Film majors get all the glory, a scrappy group of underdog TV students fight to keep their production alive despite a nonexistent budget, a tyrannical dean, and their own chaotic dysfunction.
0.0This is an hour of stand up about childhood, learning to live and learning to understand the harshness of the world by one of Australia's most exciting comedic voices. Filmed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, in March, 2021... In the midst of a global pandemic... Somehow?
0.0A folklorist researching an 'urban legend' becomes caught up in his task. The film tells its fictional story in documentary style, featuring interviews with real folklore scholars.
10.0Ron Ervin returns to his hometown to talk growing up in middle America, big city life and what it’s like living in the smallest apartment in New York City.
This faux newsreel spoof documents the rise and fall of four Chinese musicians who rose from the ashes of the Cultural Revolution to rock 'n' roll at Max's Kansas City. Al- though this loopy rockumentary is basically a one-note joke, it has particular resonance in light of Tiananmen Square
6.0Do you have to be miserable to be funny? More than sixty comedians—including stand-ups, writers, actors, and directors from the US, Canada, and abroad—take on this question, sharing anecdotes and insights with lively enthusiasm.
10.0It's your last day in the office, and you have company.
7.0This is a great performance. Through yelling and energetic story-telling, he talks about marriage, drugs, being arrested (thanks to his ex-wife), pleasing women, religion, and much, much more.
6.0I'm Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the film follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip-hop musician. The film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads and explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the ramifications of a life spent in the public eye.
0.0A brave man opens up to a film crew about his biggest fear, milk.
6.0After several years without contact, Martijn visits his sister Daantje, who just started to live on her own in Amsterdam. He tells her he is going to make a documentary from her life, and enters her home life with a video camera.
5.2Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his skills of hype and manipulation to try and turn the cab driver named Frank into the talk of the town. Many celebrities make cameos throughout the film.
7.0An inspiring, triumphant and wickedly funny portrait of one of comedy’s most enigmatic and important figures, CALL ME LUCKY tells the story of Barry Crimmins, a beer-swilling, politically outspoken and whip-smart comic whose efforts in the 70s and 80s fostered the talents of the next generation of standup comedians. But beneath Crimmins’ gruff, hard-drinking, curmudgeonly persona lay an undercurrent of rage stemming from his long-suppressed and horrific abuse as a child – a rage that eventually found its way out of the comedy clubs and television shows and into the political arena.
9.0A compulsive lottery player, Dennis, is on a monthly meal out with his wife and friends. The night turns when a practical joke played on him horribly backfires.
7.2A mockumentary about the fictional Swedish revue artist Harry Viktor.
0.0Shawn and Lisa try to pitch their short film script at a party full of young creatives.
6.5Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by singing '60s-style acoustic folk songs with lyrics espousing far-right conservative social and economic views.
6.4In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.
6.6The film mainly consists of various, often grotesque episodes. There is also a frame story from which the episodes are derived. However, the connection between the frame story and the episodes is very weak. Many episodes revolve around surveillance and security. In the frame story, insurance agent Erich and Richard are stuck together in an elevator that is unusually large for an apartment building (about 3x3 meters). While Erich wants to get out as quickly as possible, Richard isn't actually in any hurry, as he seems to live in the elevator.