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Plot: At the height of the standup-comedy boom of the 1980s, this film offered the revelation that many comedians were, in fact, rather psychologically unstable individuals for whom performing was an outlet...( read more read more... ) for hostility and aggression. Wow--who would have guessed? This film focuses on two who meet and forge an unlikely friendship: Tom Hanks plays a caustic, self-destructive comic looking for his big break and Sally Field plays a more Roseannelike comedian who begins neglecting her husband (John Goodman) and children because she gets such a kick out of performing. The offstage stuff is strictly soap opera, but Hanks and Field both develop solid comedic rhythms once they get behind a microphone. --Marshall Fine

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  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    March 2, 2008
    This was a waonderful movie. Sally is just amazing (when isn't she?) Tom Hanks...classic! See it if you haven't. And shame on you.
  • 1.5 Stars
    MCT:
    August 31, 2007
    In spite of the title, don't expect this film to be a comedy, it's not. In fact, don't expect it to be much of a drama either. Even the likes of Tom Hanks, Sally Field and John Goodman couldn't pull this one out of the crapper.
  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    August 26, 2007
    This examination of the world of the stand-up comic centres on self-destructive but brilliant Tom Hanks and housewife Sally Field, who wants more out of life than kitchen drudgery. Although over sentimental when revealing Field's domestic life to us, the stand-up stuff is wonderful, showing us what it's really like trying to survive by making people laugh.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    May 24, 2007
    I odn't think this movie got the proper raves. The obvious chemistry between Sally and Tom must have sparked the thought of putting them together in 'Forrest gump"
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    April 4, 2007
    es como una comedia romantica, a medias, la otra mitad es como comedia adolece3nte, y la otra mitad problemas familiares, una conbinacion rara, pero la peliucual aunque dura demasiado (2 horas) tiene un final semidulce y un homenaje al stand up comedy que a gandhi tan bien le sale

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  • Rated: (R)
  • Directed by: David Seltzer
  • Genres: Drama, Comedy
  • Released: September 30, 1988
  • DVD Released: July 9, 2002

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