Punchline
Catalog Number
65010
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Primary Distributor (If not listed, select "OTHER")
Catalog Number
65010
Primary Distributor (If not listed, select "OTHER")
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123 mins (NTSC)
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Punchline (1988)
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It only hurts when you LAUGH!
Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.
The film received mixed reviews from critics. It has a rating of exactly 50% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 16 reviews. Variety wrote that "Hanks is the real reason to see the film and those who enjoyed watching him in Big will find a different, more realized comedian." Roger Ebert wrote that it "makes the fatal mistake of taking stand-up seriously. And if you’re gonna do that, you’d better have good material." One review in The Washington Post read that it "commits the unforgivable sin -- it's a movie about comedy that's not funny." Another review in the same newspaper declared that "Seltzer has certainly redeemed his past (ever catch that "Six Weeks" thing between Dudley Moore and Mary Tyler Moore, or the Jon Voight "Table for Five"?). He should just avoid projects where you have to use the word "bittersweet" -- and grab at any others that star Tom Hanks."
Release Date: September 30, 1988
Domestic Total Gross: $21,042,667
Domestic Total Adj. Gross: $44,286,900
Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.
The film received mixed reviews from critics. It has a rating of exactly 50% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 16 reviews. Variety wrote that "Hanks is the real reason to see the film and those who enjoyed watching him in Big will find a different, more realized comedian." Roger Ebert wrote that it "makes the fatal mistake of taking stand-up seriously. And if you’re gonna do that, you’d better have good material." One review in The Washington Post read that it "commits the unforgivable sin -- it's a movie about comedy that's not funny." Another review in the same newspaper declared that "Seltzer has certainly redeemed his past (ever catch that "Six Weeks" thing between Dudley Moore and Mary Tyler Moore, or the Jon Voight "Table for Five"?). He should just avoid projects where you have to use the word "bittersweet" -- and grab at any others that star Tom Hanks."
Release Date: September 30, 1988
Domestic Total Gross: $21,042,667
Domestic Total Adj. Gross: $44,286,900
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