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Entertainment
USA 2015
produced by Rick Alverson, Brooke Bernard, Patrick Hibler, Alex Lipschultz, Ryan Lough, George Rush, Ryan Zacarias for Arts+Labor, Made Bed Productions, Nomadic Independence Pictures
directed by Rick Alverson
starring Gregg Turkington, John C. Reilly, Amy Seimetz, Tye Sheridan, Michael Cera, Lotte Verbeek, Dean Stockwell, Tim Heidecker, Tonantzin Carmelo, Becktoria, Mariann Gavelo, Kalia Prescott, Waymond Lee, Dustin Guy Defa, Ashley Atwood, David Yow, Jose Lizarde jr, Annabella Lwin, Brenna Rhea, Kevin Guthrie, Carlos Simental jr, Jeffrey Jensen, Sean Burgos, Sergio Rafael, Rafael Cobos Delgado, Susan Cernas
written by Gregg Turkington, Rick Alverson, Tim Heidecker, music by Robert Donne
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A comedian (Gregg Turkington) tours the US-American South West with his
show of drunk celebrity insults - which works quite well in some places
(primarily prisons) where there's little other entertainment available ...
but in small town bars where people just want to get drunk he's not doing
that good anymore - also because he's not all that funny. However, the
longer he does it the touchier he gets regarding audience interruption, to
the point where he gets thrown out of venues because of causing rows with
his audience. People who care for him like his cousin (John C. Reilly) try
to help - even though especially this cousin has little idea as to how -
but he keeps doing what he does, getting worse with every show, but trying
to convince himself he's doing it all for his daughter - who he phones
after every performance, but who never picks up and who might only exist
in his dreams mind you ... Entertainment is a movie that
has very obviously been done with plenty of enthusiasm and care and
whatnot, and that's to-the-point atmospheric and cleverly directed in all
the right spots - and yet it just fails to take off. For one, the film
lacks narrative build-up or a proper structure, it just shows the same
character doing the same thing and different people reacting to it. On top
of that though, and this is really where the film falls apart, the problem
is the main character is just not likeable enough - and the problem is
neither that he's not funny as a comedian (that's actually part of his
charm) or that Gregg Turkington doesn't have him down to a t, quite the
contrary, he works too well - and that said, the character just lacks
loveability as such - and that's just not a very good thing ...
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