Comedy, Romance
Life has its downs for James, living with his mom in Chicago at 39, an aging performer at Second City, eating and weighing too much. A woman he's been dating drops him, as does his agent, her brother. James turns down roles in local TV, roles that make him sad. Someone's remaking his favorite movie, "Marty," a role he'd love, but he doesn't even get an audition.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Roberge Case
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Home Movies
Alice
Aliens, Clowns & Geeks
Tiptoes
Lonesome Cowboys
Dreamland
Sleeper
Spun
Deconstructing Harry
Roar
Igelak (Frogs)
Dreamers
Pierrot le Fou
The Lovers
Louis C.K. Learns About the Catholic Church
Man of the Year
Hannah Takes the Stairs
A Night in Heaven
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Roberge Case
IMDB 2.7 | Aug , 2008
The daily life of four friends working in the Quebec entertainment industry presented in the form of a series of reflections on professional ambitions and failures, artistic inspiration and moral values.Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 1983
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.Home Movies
IMDB 5.6 | May , 1980
A cult guru urges a shy disciple to make life a movie and be its star.Alice
IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 1990
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of her well-established rut.Aliens, Clowns & Geeks
IMDB 6.6 | Jan , 2021
An out-of-work actor stumbles upon key to the universe, is drawn into intergalactic war between clowns and aliens.Tiptoes
IMDB 3.8 | Dec , 2002
A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.Lonesome Cowboys
IMDB 4.7 | Nov , 1968
Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.Dreamland
IMDB 6 | Jan , 2006
A young woman who lives in a desert trailer park must choose between caring for her hapless father and sick friend or fulfilling her own destiny.Sleeper
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 1973
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.Spun
IMDB 6.6 | Feb , 2003
Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up with his old girlfriend, Amy.Deconstructing Harry
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 1997
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.Roar
IMDB 5.9 | Oct , 1981
Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.Igelak (Frogs)
IMDB 4.7 | Dec , 2016
Pello, a bank branch manager, is arrested on charges of embezzlement. Abandoned by his superior (who got him involved in the heist), Pello escapes from the court room and goes on the run. With no papers, no money and no family or friends he can trust, he changes identity so that he can stay undercover for a time. By chance he ends up hiding in a building that has been occupied by a group of people evicted from their homes who are fighting his bank. Pello gains their trust, all the time planning to steal money from them to pay for false documentation so that he can escape abroad and start a new life.Dreamers
IMDB 3.3 | Jun , 2000
Growing up in small-town America, two friends dream about escaping their confining families to search for their dreams and freedom in the big city. Arriving in Los Angeles, the two discover the harsh realities of the city as they enter the shadowy world of the film business. Ultimately, the two friends must choose between love and friendship and soon discover that life has its own destiny for everyone.Pierrot le Fou
IMDB 7.3 | Nov , 1965
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.The Lovers
IMDB 6.6 | Nov , 1958
A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness.Louis C.K. Learns About the Catholic Church
IMDB 6.8 | Jun , 2007
Driven by simple curiosity, I did some investiagative reporting and found out some surprising things about the Catholic Church...Man of the Year
IMDB 2.8 | Sep , 1995
First-time director Dirk Shafer also penned this raucous "mockumentary," a blend of fact and fiction that re-creates his 1992 reign as Playgirl magazine's Centerfold of the Year. When Shafer chooses to keep the fact that he's gay a secret from the magazine's editors, he finds himself living the ultimate lie -- and incapable of giving female readers what they really want. Will he succumb to his lover's pressures to come out of the closet?Hannah Takes the Stairs
IMDB 5.2 | Aug , 2007
Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained. Will a relationship with one of them disrupt the delicate balance of their friendship?A Night in Heaven
IMDB 4.5 | Nov , 1983
Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girls-night out, where she discovers that one of the dancers is her failing student Rick Monroe, a.k.a. "Ricky the Rocket". A heated affair between teacher & student ensues, as Faye struggles to reconcile her emotions and make consequential life choices: Continue her lustful sessions with the studly-but-shallow teen stripper? Or break it off with Ricky & work to salvage her marriage to the loving-but-distant husband?