Movie · Comedy · Drama

At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television – and culture – forever. Directed by Jason Reitman and written by Gil Kenan & Reitman, Saturday Night is based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. Full of humor, chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn't, we count down the minutes in real time until we hear those famous words…

2024 · 1h 49m
Director Jason Reitman

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Saturday Night

Comedy

At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television – and culture – forever. Directed by Jason Reitman and written by Gil Kenan & Reitman, Saturday Night is based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. Full of humor, chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn't, we count down the minutes in real time until we hear those famous words…

COMMON SENSE

Tense comedy origin story has smoking, drugs, language.

TOMATOMETER
Average 6.9
Reviews 255
Fresh 196
Rotten 59

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Studio
Broadway Video; Reitman/Kenan; Right of Wat Films
Released
2024
Run Time
1 hr 49 min
Rated
R for language throughout, sexual references, some drug use and brief graphic nudity.
Region of Origin
United States
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Languages

Original Audio
English, French
Audio

English (AD, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, Dolby Atmos, AAC), French (France) (AAC), Spanish (Latin America) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (United Kingdom) , English (United States) (SDH), Arabic , Bulgarian , Chinese, Simplified , Chinese, Traditional , Czech , Danish , Dutch , Estonian , Finnish , French (France) , German (Germany) , Greek , Hebrew , Hungarian , Italian (Italy) , Latvian , Lithuanian , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil) , Portuguese (Portugal) , Russian , Slovak , Slovenian , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Swedish , Thai , Turkish , Ukrainian , Vietnamese

Accessibility

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.