Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 25 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 14, 2010
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Ifc Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg | |
Screenwriting by | Ricki Stern | |
Composition by | Paul Brill & Amber Rubarth | |
Subject: | Joan Rivers | |
Director of Photography: | Charles Miller |
Entertainment Reviews:
[A] rip-roaring documentary....She's a teller of hilarious gutbucket truths as surely as Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor ever were. -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 4/5 --
A compulsively watchable look at Rivers, show business and the price one pays to try to continue succeeding in it.
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Arizona Republic
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A fierce, funny and heartbreaking work of art that is every bit as fabulous as the woman herself.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
[A] stirring portrait of indomitability....A queen of comedy who won't and shouldn't abdicate.
Wall Street Journal
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Acting is about honesty, and there's something evasive about both this film and its subject.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
... pretty funny.
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Newsday
Rating: B --
Welcome to the on-screen psychoanalysis of Joan Rivers, of which she seems equal parts willing participant and antagonist.
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Christian Science Monitor
Product Description:
Joan Rivers launched her career as a standup comic in the early '60s, a time when female comedians were few and far between, and after several years of working nightclubs to unresponsive audiences, she was booked on THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON in 1965 and soon became one of the most successful comedy acts in the nation. Since then, Rivers has hosted several TV talk shows, written best-selling books, directed a feature film, launched a line of jewelry, and kept up a busy schedule of personal appearances, determined to hold on to her stardom regardless of the fickle winds of show business. Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg followed Rivers through a typically eventful year in her life, and in JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK, they offer a look at the woman behind the laughter as she struggles to stay in the spotlight, works on new material, launches a one-woman show in the United Kingdom that doesn't fare as well as she hopes, takes a chance as a participant on a reality TV show, and ponders her career in show business at the age of 75. JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK received its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.