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Mr. Saturday Night

1992 · 119 min

A bittersweet showbiz story that mixes laughs with regret, watching a once-great comic struggle with his ego and lost connections.

Directed by
Billy Crystal
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Tagline
It's lonely at the middle.
Overview
Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of the world has forgotten the golden days of Buddy Young, and that there just may not be room in the business for an old comic like himself.

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Directed by
Billy Crystal
Genres
Comedy, Drama
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • ambition
  • identity
  • redemption
  • aging
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism8
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Billy Crystal
Written by
Babaloo Mandel, Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz
Starring
Billy Crystal, David Paymer, Julie Warner, Helen Hunt, Mary Mara, Jerry Orbach, Ron Silver, Sage Allen
Music
Marc Shaiman
Cinematography
Donald Peterman
Runtime
119 min
Country
United States of America

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