The Comedy

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DVD Details

  • Rated: Unrated
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 26, 2013
  • Originally Released: 2012
  • Label: New Video Group

Performers, Cast and Crew:

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Directed by
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Entertainment Reviews:

Rotten47%

TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 34

Spilled55%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 4,434
Rating: 0/4 -- A mean-spirited piece of mumblecore that tries to provoke you, but only succeeds in boring you. Full Review
San Francisco Chronicle
Nov 22, 2012
Rating: 2.5/4 -- None of this is necessarily funny. That's the extent of the irony here. Full Review
Boston Globe
Dec 6, 2012
For something titled The Comedy, this movie isn't funny. Or charming, likable, enjoyable, or any other adjectives you would find splashed on a poster. Full Review
Dig Boston
Apr 13, 2016
While this could have been the perfect portrait of a certain kind of idiot, the baroque cruelties and tonal monotony go too far. Full Review
Film Comment Magazine
Jun 28, 2013
Rating: 1/4 -- The longest and dreariest 94 minutes I've spent on a movie this year.
Seattle Times
Dec 6, 2012
A searing study of an aging hipster who encapsulates the misanthropy popular culture's notion of what it means to be funny. Full Review
Counterpunch.org
Jan 19, 2018
Rating: 2.5/4 -- A character study that tries to make the revolting compelling. Full Review
New York Post
Nov 16, 2012

Product Description:

An aging Brooklyn hipster poised to inherit his father's estate begins to push the boundaries of acceptable social behavior while growing increasingly indifferent about the world and his role in it. Swanson (Tim Heidecker) has been spoiled since childhood. Safely nestled in a protective bubble of privilege since he was young, he passes the days by being impulsively irreverent with his three best friends (Eric Wareheim, James Murphy, and Gregg Turkington, aka Neil Hamburger). Meanwhile, beneath the surface, an acute sense of malaise begins to set in, causing Swanson's behavior to grow increasingly extreme and erratic. As the prospect of redemption looms just out of reach, the threat of reckoning grows increasingly probable.

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  • UPC: 767685283486
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