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As brilliantly and uncomfortably confrontational as its protagonist, Entertainment is a boundary-blurring exercise in cinematic misanthropy that more than lives up to its title. Read critic reviews
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An abrasive stand-up comic (Gregg Turkington) hits the road to perform a series of shows at seedy venues.
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Rating: R (Crude Sexual Material|Brief Drug Use|A Disturbing Image|Language)
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Genre: Comedy
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Original Language: English
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Director: Rick Alverson
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Producer: Ryan Zacarias, Ryan Lough, George Rush, Brooke Bernard, Rick Alverson, Patrick Hibler, Alex Lipschultz
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Writer: Rick Alverson, Gregg Turkington, Tim Heidecker
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Release Date (Theaters): limited
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Box Office (Gross USA): $55.5K
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
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Production Co: Arts & Labor, Autumn Pictures
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None of the reviews to this mentioned Neil Hamburger. This is, essentially, a Sisyphean biopic about Neil Hamburger's career (with a Lynchean twist!). Great shots. Everything else sucks horribly. Sitting through this film was arduous. Without the payoff of a joke that is an occasional happenstance on a Neil Hamburger record, this movie just seems flat. Not even the silly extras (or friends of Rick or Gregg) pulled a laugh out of me. Such a sad film about comedy, and a laughless film about existential worthlessness. But that's ENTERTAINMENT!!!!! sadness and mediocrity. I wish I could drink enough to forget more of this film.
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As mean spirited a thing as a thing could be, this relentlessly bitter view of life and of people tells the story of a dive comedian on the road of dive venues. He is not happy. His jokes are not funny. Perhaps the humor of this piece, the "entertainment" is ironic, a statement that nothing is really entertaining, that life is simply shit. Okay. But as an argument over coffee, not as a film experience. Suicide is an redemptive alternative compared to this.
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Bizarre, divisive, bleak, black comedy, with a superlative music score and an incredibly deranged lead performance.
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