Der letzte Komödiant – Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
68KDer letzte Komödiant – Mr. Saturday Night: Directed by Billy Crystal. With Billy Crystal, David Paymer, Julie Warner, Helen Hunt. The life of Buddy Young, a comic legend in flashbacks but an old man looking for work in the present.
“Buddy Young, Jr. (Billy Crystal) is a talented comedian after forty years of struggling to reach the top. But Buddy can be unsympathetic man towards his comedy, his family and especially his long suffering brother/manager (David Paymer). Now Buddy has to make a choice between pushing forward to his dying career or making piece with the family, heu0026#39;s hurting.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDirected by Billy Crystal (Forget Paris, Have a Nice Day, 61) made his directorial debut with this sometimes flawed but an genuinely touching and bittersweet comedy. Crystal is good in the lead role, since itu0026#39;s based on his comedy character routine but when Crystal plays the older version of his character. Heu0026#39;s hardly convincing as the older Buddy, especially with the heavy make-up role. Which he looks like Carl Reiner than himself. Paymer and Julie Warner as Buddyu0026#39;s wife plays the older version of their characters more convincingly. Paymer received an Oscar Nomination for his terrific supporting performance.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDVD has an good anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) transfer and an fine-Dolby 2.0 Surround Sound. DVD has an interesting commentary track by Crystal, which Paymer joins him during the last fifty minutes of the movie. DVD also has three new featurettes with Crystal and Paymer, deleted scenes with introduction by the director, gag reel and the original theatrical trailer. This dramatic comedy has good supporting roles for Oscar-Winner:Helen Hunt and Ron Silver. Some amusing cameos by Jerry Orbach, Jerry Lewis and an young Adam Goldberg. This is one of the few underrated films of Billy Crystal, which he appears in. Written by Crystal, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. Which Ganz and Mandel wrote comedies like u0026quot;City Slickers 1 u0026amp; 2u0026quot;, u0026quot;EDTVu0026quot; and u0026quot;Greedyu0026quot;. (****/*****).”
