2016 · comedy
The Comedian
Directed by Taylor Hackford2h 0m2016
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.
Our read: The Comedian (2016) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- gentle
- intimate
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