Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 09/30/1988(USA)
Release Date: 07/09/2002
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol/Por/KO/TH
Sound: DS
Run Time: 122 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Humor, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
Sally Field goes the
Roseanne route in
Punchline.
Field plays a housewife and mother who suddenly develops the urge to be a comedienne. Her comic instincts are on target, but her timing and delivery stinks.
Tom Hanks, a stand-up comic with a few years' experience under his belt, offers to teach
Field the ropes. As they get to know each other,
Hanks and
Field begin to pick up on each other's shortcomings; though
Hanks has far more talent than
Field, for example, he has a positively ruinous habit of expressing his deep-down dislike of everyone else in the world, and this frequently alienates his audience. Writer-director
David Seltzer times
Punchline like a good joke; he continually sets up for the expected, then pulls a last-minute fast one, keeping the film lively and unpredictable throughout. The supporting cast, coincidentally including future
Roseanne star
John Goodman, is uniformly superb.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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