A retired manager is reunited with his first client, and together
they decide to tour the comedy club circuit for one last hurrah. COMEDY
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The Last Laugh (2019)Written and Directed by Greg Pritikin
Starring Chevy Chase, Richard Dreyfuss, Andie MacDowell, Kate Micucci, Chris Parnell, George Wallace, Richard Kind, Lewis Black |
Netflix will seemingly greenlight anything. There are dozens, if not hundreds by now, of random movies of every genre just scattered around the service. Most of them don't get any advertising and you just have to stumble onto them. That's the way it was for me and The Last Laugh, a surprisingly poignant and enjoyable comedy starring Chevy Chase and Richard Dreyfuss. Most critics panned it, Netflix shoved it in the back catalog, but I'm here to say it's worth a watch. Chase and Dreyfuss have terrific chemistry, and I like the idea of one last hurrah for two retired but still alive old men.
Chase plays retired talent manager Al Hart, who just moved into a nursing home. The monotony of it and the daily death toll makes him realize he isn't ready to stop working. At the home, he runs into Buddy Green (Dreyfuss), his first ever client who left the industry right before he was supposed to go on The Ed Sullivan Show. The two decide to make up for lost time and tour the comedy club circuit, bonding along the way. There's a lot of great moments throughout the film, mostly little stuff that Chase and Dreyfuss must've improvised. The Last Laugh gets the job done if you're looking for a short and sweet comedy with dramatic heft. Its two leads are hysterical, and the film's theme of "no regrets before the end" is something that'll make you think. If nothing else, it may make you want to go back into Netflix's Originals and see what else you missed. |