Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work R

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 25 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 14, 2010
  • Originally Released: 2010
  • Label: IFC Independent Film

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 12,427
[A] convulsively funny movie....When she stands on the stage, it's as if she had tapped right into her id.
New York Times
Jun 11, 2010
Rating: 3/4 -- The new documentary on Joan Rivers is so in your face, so fraught with harrowing, oversized personal stuff, you might want to get a theatre seat a couple of rows behind where you normally sit, to safely take it all in. Full Review
Globe and Mail
Aug 13, 2010
A PIECE OF WORK is funny, heartbreaking, and casually profound about the insatiable need for validation and approval that fuels so much stand-up comedy. -- Grade: A-
A.V. Club
Jun 10, 2010
[A] rip-roaring documentary....She's a teller of hilarious gutbucket truths as surely as Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor ever were. -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
Jun 10, 2010
Rating: 3.5/4 -- A fierce, funny and heartbreaking work of art that is every bit as fabulous as the woman herself. Full Review
The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
Jun 6, 2019
[B]awdy and surprisingly trenchant....Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg have managed to capture the 'Can we talk'' comic in all her funny fury.
Los Angeles Times
Jun 11, 2010
Rating: 4.5/5 -- Dying this past September, Rivers failed in her longevity goal, but has left a legacy of unforgettable comedy that was never afraid to piss people off even as they howled till their sides split. Full Review
JWR
Jan 4, 2015

Product Description:

Joan Rivers launched her career as a standup comic in the early '60s, a time when female comedians were few and far between, and after several years of working nightclubs to unresponsive audiences, she was booked on THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON in 1965 and soon became one of the most successful comedy acts in the nation. Since then, Rivers has hosted several TV talk shows, written best-selling books, directed a feature film, launched a line of jewelry, and kept up a busy schedule of personal appearances, determined to hold on to her stardom regardless of the fickle winds of show business. Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg followed Rivers through a typically eventful year in her life, and in JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK, they offer a look at the woman behind the laughter as she struggles to stay in the spotlight, works on new material, launches a one-woman show in the United Kingdom that doesn't fare as well as she hopes, takes a chance as a participant on a reality TV show, and ponders her career in show business at the age of 75. JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK received its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

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  • UPC: 030306956091
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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