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The King of Comedy
Rupert Pupkin is a big comedian who tries to reach a great extent in his career but faces difficulties but continues to get the right approach and even on a non-straight approach. He collaborates with his crazed friend Macha to kidnap the talk show host hoping to reach the big comedian scene, even by kidnapping.
26 February 1920, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
29 March 1945, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
5 June 1951, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
6 May 1906, Marblehead, Ohio, USA
17 November 1942, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
17 November 1958, Lombard, Illinois, USA
22 April 1919, New York City, New York, USA
17 October 1941, USA
6 June 1955, Flint, Michigan, USA
16 September 1936, Iran
October 19, 2014
...remains a high-water mark in terms of De Niro's onscreen work...
April 09, 2014
I'm going to side with the dissenters this time. I can see where it might be perceived as a dark comedy, but that label doesn't absolve it from an overarching sense that Scorsese didn't push this one far enough.
March 21, 2017
Scorsese movie about the perils of fame has mature themes.
April 18, 2014
A disturbing picture of a world in which television is taken for a "reality" higher than everyday life, it's also darkly funny.
January 25, 2010
It is frustrating to watch, unpleasant to remember, and, in its own way, quite effective.
June 24, 2016
The tone it establishes is challenging, because there are funny scenes and situations which could easily be played for laughs, but that black cloud of tension and danger hangs over all of them, and Scorsese won't give you that release.
June 27, 2016
Scorsese infuses this tale with the passionate energy of New York street life and an outsider's wonder at the powerful workings of show business and studio craft.
March 31, 2008
The uncenteredness of the film is irritating, though it's irritating in an ambitious, risk-taking way.
March 31, 2008
To be sure, Robert De Niro turns in another virtuoso performance for Martin Scorsese, just as in their four previous efforts. But once again -- and even more so -- they come up with a character that it's hard to spend time with.
December 18, 2015
The King of Comedy fancies itself a scathing social satire about the lust for celebrity carried to extremes. But ultimately, director Martin Scorsese's movie is a severely misconceived and distasteful study of delusional behavior.
June 21, 2016
Brilliantly keeps viewers unmoored, the result of its consistently off-kilter tone.
