The Comedy (2012)

November. 09,2012

6.3

| Drama Comedy

Indifferent to the notion of inheriting his father's estate, a restless, aging New Yorker passes time with his friends in games of mock sincerity, irreverence, and recreational cruelty towards those around them.

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Cast

Tim Heidecker as Swanson

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Reviews

Curapedi

2012/11/09

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

InformationRap

2012/11/10

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Sanjeev Waters

2012/11/11

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Beulah Bram

2012/11/12

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.