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Road Hard
Bruce Madsen is forced to return to spend endless nights in hotel rooms after leaving the life of art and cinema. In an attempt to revive his career, and to revive the emotional life he left a long time ago, Bruce knows there is something to call him out of the way.
16 March 1987, San Fernando Valley, California, USA
22 May 1967, New York City, New York, USA
30 June 1956, Detroit, Michigan, USA
20 February 1990, Augusta, Georgia, USA
15 April 1952, New York City, New York, USA
24 August 1962, Tipton, Missouri, USA
4 September 1961, Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA
13 January 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 February 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
14 February 1980, Fall River, Massachusetts, USA
15 October 1953, Valley Stream, Long Island, New York, USA
8 April 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 November 1955, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
March 12, 2015
...even when Carolla is on-stage and performing with some type of emotional subtext, this definitely ain't Lenny.
March 05, 2015
The type of saccharine, predictable movie Carolla has spent his entire career making fun of.
March 06, 2015
The man who made girls jump on trampolines delivers better rom-coms than the rest of Hollywood.
June 25, 2015
A lot rings painfully true about showbiz in Road Hard, a bittersweet look at a middle-aged comic dealing with a stalled career.
March 06, 2015
Road Hard has enough spiky moments to make it worth a watch.
March 06, 2015
Carolla, who co-wrote and co-directed the picture with Kevin Henchis, has a way of making his remarkably stiff screen presence endearing. He plays Bruce with gentle self-mockery and a touch of genuine pathos.
April 09, 2015
Here's a comedy about a stand-up comedian trying to get out of the comedy business. And here's my advice to him: Don't quit your day job. You're good at it, and it serves the movie.
April 10, 2015
It's about looking at life as an accumulation of disappointments and having the will to work for something better.
March 06, 2015
This feature directing debut for Adam Carolla and frequent writing/producing collaborator Kevin Hench is an amiable, nicely assembled semi-autobiographical fiction that will please the former's fans.
March 05, 2015
The truth is, I found "Road Hard" to be a low-key gem, a consistently funny albeit conventional story about a guy who's almost always the funniest person in the room, and is almost always his own worst enemy.
March 16, 2015
Comedian Adam Carolla mines his own career experiences to amusing effect in his semi-autobiographical dark comedy about an embittered stand-up comic.
April 09, 2015
In the final reel, the tone suddenly shifts from laughs to a deliberately quirky romance that feels forced and, worse, doesn't work.
