Movie · Comedy · Drama

An aging comic icon, Jackie (Robert De Niro) has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother (Danny DeVito) and his wife (Patti LuPone), Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he meets Harmony (Leslie Mann), the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul (Harvey Keitel), and the two find inspiration in one another resulting in surprising consequences.

2017 · 2h 0m
Director Taylor Hackford

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An aging comic icon, Jackie (Robert De Niro) has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother (Danny DeVito) and his wife (Patti LuPone), Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he meets Harmony (Leslie Mann), the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul (Harvey Keitel), and the two find inspiration in one another resulting in surprising consequences.

COMMON SENSE

Interesting, irreverent comedy has lots of racy humor.

TOMATOMETER
Average 4.7
Reviews 112
Fresh 27
Rotten 85

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Studio
Sony Pictures Classics
Released
2017
Run Time
2 hr
Rated
R for crude sexual references and language throughout.
Regions of Origin
United States, Germany
© 2016 Comedian Productions LCC. All rights reserved.

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (AD, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), French (France)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen, to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.