The Comedian Page #5

Synopsis: Jackie (Robert DeNiro) is a comic icon, attempting to reinvent himself despite his audience only wanting to know him as a television character he played earlier in his career. After accosting an audience member, Jackie is sentenced to community service where he meets Harmony Schiltz (Leslie Mann).
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Taylor Hackford
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
40
Rotten Tomatoes:
24%
R
Year:
2016
120 min
$1,658,706
254 Views


You know what they were doing?

Trying to use my act

for their show.

Create their show out of my act.

It was crazy.

You looked crazy.

Yeah. So how are you?

I'm good. You?

Good.

I'm good. Look,

the only thing is, I...

I lost a lot of gigs

the last four weeks

because of what happened.

And Miller's re-booking them,

but I'm tapped out.

I need a little...

You know what? You got

a lot of f***ing nerve.

I don't see you.

I don't hear from you.

It happened so fast.

They take your phone in prison.

I read in Google News

you got arrested.

Like I'm nothing to you.

A lot of naked men.

Am I nothing to you?

I was preoccupied.

Is my family?

- Is that why...?

- Jackie.

Hello, Flo.

How nice to see you.

Nice to see you.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving to you.

We haven't seen you

for how long?

Uh, please.

Well, I was in prison.

Oh, no, long before that.

So nice to see you.

Nice to see you too.

Nice to see you.

How are the kids?

Kid.

We have one kid.

She's an adult now.

I forgot. Dementia.

Yeah. Yeah.

She's getting married.

Is she?

Mm-hm.

Brittany's getting married?

I thought she was a dyke.

Mm.

You say "lesbian," a**hole.

Sorry. You're right.

I meant "gay."

They can get married.

You don't have to come.

He doesn't have to come.

We sent you an invitation.

We heard nothing.

I was in prison. I told you.

Before that.

He doesn't have to come

if he's busy.

You don't have to come

if it's too much trouble.

It's not too much trouble.

If it's too much trouble,

don't come.

I don't need the aggravation

if it's trouble for you.

I don't want it

to become a thing.

It's not a thing.

If it's gonna be a thing,

don't bother.

I don't think it's a thing.

It's not a problem.

It's not a thing.

I would love to come.

I'll be there.

It's a week from Sunday.

A week from Sunday?

Yes.

I will be there.

So you wanna stay and have

Thanksgiving dinner?

Not really.

Oh.

I have an excuse though,

and I'll tell you what it is.

I'm working at the mission.

Double the hours off

my sentence for Thanksgiving.

God forbid you do it

because it's nice.

I need to speak to you

when you two are finished.

Not in this house.

Oh, she hates me.

No, she doesn't hate you.

She doesn't?

Yeah, I was f***ing with you.

Of course she hates you.

You never show up

unless you need something.

That's it?

Yeah.

Sensitive b*tch.

None of my wives hated you.

You were never married to any

of them long enough to meet me.

So how much you need?

I don't even remember.

I'm so exhausted.

Pop liked me better.

Daddy did not like you better.

No, he didn't.

No, he didn't.

Five thousand. No big deal.

You know you'll get it back.

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Art Linson

Art Linson (born 1942) is an American film producer, director and screenwriter.Linson was born in Chicago, Illinois. He did his undergraduate work at the University of California-Berkeley and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles law school. Art Linson's producing credits range from such commercial and critical hits as The Untouchables, Heat, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Fight Club, and Scrooged, to unusual classics such as Melvin and Howard, The Edge, This Boy's Life and Into the Wild. Linson's producer/director collaborations include Brian De Palma, David Mamet and Cameron Crowe. His directorial debut was the 1980 comedy, Where the Buffalo Roam, which was loosely based on stories by Hunter S. Thompson and starred Bill Murray as the writer. His writing credits include two books, What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line, which was adapted into a film from his original screenplay What Just Happened and starred Robert De Niro, and A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywood. He is married to British actress Fiona Lewis. For television he is currently executive producer with his son John Linson on Sons of Anarchy. In 2016, Art produced and penned the movie The Comedian directed by Taylor Hackford. The film starred Robert De Niro and Leslie Mann. Also in 2016 Art produced The Outsider, a crime drama film directed by Martin Zandvliet and written by Andrew Baldwin. The film stars Oscar winner Jared Leto and Tadanobu Asano. more…

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