2017 · comedy · biography
The Disaster Artist
Directed by James Franco1h 44m2017
An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.
Our read: The Disaster Artist (2017) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · biography entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / biography, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
- funny
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How The Disaster Artist feels to watch.
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“You want Hollywood absurdity and a hilarious underdog story about making history's worst film.”
Skip it tonight — You need refined comedy and cannot stomach celebrating art this gloriously incompetent.
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