Entertainment Page #3

Synopsis: En route to meet his estranged daughter and attempting to revive his dwindling career, a broken, middle-aged comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave desert.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Rick Alverson
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
65
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
R
Year:
2015
103 min
$55,506
Website
594 Views


Hi, sweetheart.

Uh, this is just really

difficult to get a hold of you.

I just had to call

and tell you...

Sweet dreams.

If nature was gonna grow

an orange, Neil,

she would just make it

just enough meat,

that's what we call this,

just to fertilize the seed

once it falls, but man,

we want all this sweet meat.

So we pump it full of

fertilizer and water.

- You want this?

- Nah, that's all right.

I can't eat these either.

Hey, did you, uh, see that guy

I was walking around here with?

No.

I was walking around

with a guy.

I got a couple places

in town do great burgers.

One of them is a bar

that serves burgers

and one's just a restaurant.

We need to get a beer.

The foothills off to the left,

you see they start there?

They start to the west and

they come across here?

That's my property,

butts right up against that,

the beginning of those hills

behind my house.

- You alive?

- Yeah.

You gotta talk right up against

the mic or I can't hear you.

- Yeah.

- Okay.

You all right? Watch the legs.

Cool, huh?

Here we go.

Pino Roja.

So if you sleep with Kenny G,

if you go to bed with Kenny G

and he gives you one of...

What was it?

And he gives you

one of his records...

Um...

Wait, no. Whatever.

If you sleep with Kenny G, uh,

and he gives you his record,

then, uh...

What is it? Tell her.

I don't wanna do it here.

All right, I remember. Um...

What's the worst thing that

just happened to you?

You're stuck

with a Kenny G record.

I can't do it.

Neil knows how to do it. I...

It's a little different but...

Are you gonna tell me?

I told him about the Kenny G.

Oh, okay. I just want...

You two guys start talking and

I don't know what you're sayin'.

The real shitty thing about it

was half the place was empty.

I mean, he's tellin' this

funny stuff, some of it weird,

you know,

but a lot of funny stuff,

and people weren't there,

you know? That was a shame.

There were

some people there, just...

No, it pissed me off!

I was standing there, like,

"What is this?"

Empty seats?

Who's bookin' this thing?

I don't know who picked

that place for you.

You know that place downtown,

The Alley?

- The Alley.

- Dirty. Filthy.

Anyway, you need a business plan

is what I'm sayin', you know?

That's just product

you're throwin' away.

If you see an empty seat

and you tell a joke

and there's no one in that seat

you're just throwin' that joke

away into that seat.

- Right.

- I wanna make sure

people know

before they get there,

and if they don't know

and it's still half empty,

I'm gonna give 'em a 2-for-1.

I'm gonna say

- bring a friend for free.

- Excuse me.

I gotta stick around here

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Rick Alverson

Rick Alverson is an American independent filmmaker living in Richmond, VA. His films have been characterized by their departure from traditional 3 act structure, use of unscripted dialogue, and confrontational nature. more…

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