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First Odd Golfing Teaser for Divisive Sundance Film 'The Comedy'
by Alex Billington
August 30, 2012
Source: Vulture
Don't be fooled by the title, The Comedy isn't exactly a comedy. Well, it is, but it's a very dark comedy, the kind that may get some love, but others will hate it with a passion. Rick Alverson's The Comedy stars the two guys behind Tim & Eric - Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, plus LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy. Heidecker plays an aimless Brooklyn hipster about to inherit his father's estate, but "as his future seems to look more and more comfortable, Heidecker's hipster starts to act out in ways that are ever more uncomfortable." Which is where many of these brilliantly chosen critics' quotes (so damn good!) come from.
Here's the very first teaser trailer for Rick Alverson's The Comedy, debuted on Vulture:
On the cusp of inheriting his father's estate, Swanson (Heidecker) is a man with unlimited options. An aging hipster living in Brooklyn, he spends his days in aimless recreation with like-minded friends in games of comic irreverence and mock sincerity. As Swanson grows restless of the safety a sheltered life offers him, he tests the limits of acceptable behavior, pushing the envelope in every way he can. For more.
The Comedy is directed by filmmaker Rick Alverson, of indies The Builder and New Jerusalem. The script was co-written by Alverson, Robert Donne & Colm O'Leary. This first premiered at this year's Sundance. Tribeca Films is releasing The Comedy in limited theaters on November 16th, plus VOD on October 24th.
4 Comments
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so - a movie about a loser who is being given a wonderful opportunity and is too much of a self absorbed, infantile dumbass to handle it correctly?......pass.
beevis on Aug 30, 2012
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At least he wasn't a writer, or a film director struggling with a script. It looks brutal. In that I'd want to smash their fucking faces in with that golf club. I actually have an old acquaintance that is now a Brooklyn hipster djaying off his Ipad that was quite into golf, well I say golf, but really he just used to beat his girlfriend with the club, he also lives off his parents money and acts like a zen hippy. Fun times.
Carpola on Aug 30, 2012
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I'm very interested
ictimer on Aug 31, 2012
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