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HUMOR ME
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Completed - ENGLISH-UNITED STATES - Comedy - 93 minutes

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2018 (Premiere)
  • AFM 2018 (Line up)
  • Berlin EFM 2019 (Line up)
  • Cannes 2019 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2017

Director(s) : Sam HOFFMAN
Writer(s) : Sam HOFFMAN
Cast : Jemaine CLEMENT, Elliott GOULD

Producer(s) : Courtney POTTS (Fugitive Films), Jamie GORDON (Fugitive Films), Sam HOFFMAN

Synopsis

A once-acclaimed New York playwright, Nate (Jemaine Clement), is struggling to finish his new play when his wife leaves him, taking their son. Desolate, broke and unable to pay the rent, Nate begrudgingly moves in with his widowed father, Bob (Elliott Gould), in his New Jersey retirement golf community. Bob, always quick with a joke, uses humor to deal with all of life's challenges, even the death of his beloved wife. It drives Nate crazy. Soon enough Nate stumbles on a senior citizen theater troupe staging a musical. Nate agrees to help but quickly realizes it won't be easy to get these quirky women to cooperate. And one of them, Dee (Annie Potts) even invites him to dinner to not-so-subtly set him up with her daughter. Working on this show embarrasses him, but this humble effort inevitably leads to an epiphany.

Production

Country(ies) : USA

AUSTRALIA MADMAN ENTERTAI
CHINA TIMES VISION
DENMARK SMILE ENTERTAIN
KUWAIT KUWAIT NATIONAL
UNITED ARA FRONT ROW FILME
UNITED KIN Feb 04, 2019 101 FILMS LTD


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Festivals and Awards

Edinburgh 2018
AJFF 2018
UK Jewish FF 2018


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