Release Date: 11/13/20
Genre: Drama
Rating: NR
Director: Shannon Kohli
Studio(s): Animal Mother Films, Quiver Distribution
Cast: Raylene Harewood (Charlene), Brian Markinson (Bob), Richard Lett (Dennis), Tanya Jade (Kim), Larke Miller (Tracy Johnson).
Story: Charlene Murray (Charlie to her friends) isn’t your average twenty-one-year old. Inspired by her late father’s unrealized ambitions, she wants nothing more in life than to be a stand-up comic, and is equal parts thrilled and terrified by the fact that she’s finally old enough to get into a comedy club and actually try her material in front of paying customers. So, with a fistful of jokes, and her stalwart friend there to get her back, she heads to the LAUGHING HYENA, one of New York’s faded comedic hot spots, to hit her first ever open mic night.
Glued to his barstool at the back of the room, with his fourth whiskey of the night in hand is Bob Carpenter, and he’s not going to stop heckling until Charlie gives up the microphone. It doesn’t take long before he gets exactly what he wants, and Charlie, chastened, flees the club. When she later returns to the Hyena to talk to Dennis, the manager, he tells Charlie that if she really wants to learn the craft, then she’s got to be writing all the time, and studying people who know what they’re doing; people like Bob who, before his marriage and career collapsed and he became an alcoholic heckler, used to be one of the top touring comics in the country. Impressed by this new side of him, and with Dennis’ encouragement, Charlie decides that Bob is going to be her mentor whether he likes it or not, and sets about winning him over. As the two slowly feel each other out, what develops is an unlikely friendship based on broken families, a healthy appreciation of sarcasm, and the undeniable rush of making a whole room full of people laugh. Source(s): Official site, alljokingasidemovie.com; IMDB.
Trailer:
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