the-comedian

One of the late additions to the 2016 release calendar is The Comedian, the latest film from Taylor Hackford (Ray, The Devil’s Advocate). Starring Robert De Niro as an insult comic with his glory days behind him, Sony Classics picked up the film and after an AFI Fest premiere and ahead of an Oscar-qualifying run, the first trailer has landed.

Seemingly a far cry from The King of Comedy, we said in our review, “When I consider The Comedian, I’m hard-pressed to articulate just what the movie is. It feels as though over the course of the production, whatever point it was supposed to have got lost, perhaps in the transition from one director or screenplay draft to another. What’s left is an accretion of movie stars and name comedians orbiting a plotless New York travelogue starring Robert De Niro.”

Check out the trailer below for the film also starring Leslie Mann, Edie Falco, Harvey Keitel, and Danny DeVito.

The Comedian gets a one-week awards qualifying run in NY and LA starting December 2nd then returns to theaters on January 13th.

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