Sony Pictures Classics has released the trailer for Taylor Hackford‘s (Parker, Ray) The Comedian, starring Robert De Niro as an aging comedian struggling to come to terms with his career who is sentenced to community service after accosting an audience member. The film also stars Danny DeVito, Patti LuPone, Leslie Mann, and Harvey Keitel.
The Comedian will have a one-week qualifying run in New York and Los Angeles beginning December 2nd before opening in limited release January 13th, 2017.
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.
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