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    The Jimmy Show

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    Poster of the movie The Jimmy Show
    2001     Comedy-drama    
    USA
    1h 36min

    Jimmy O'Brien is a stand-up comedian -- and not a very good one -- which explains his day job at Tops Grocery. Like any dreamer, Jimmy yearns to escape his working class roots and make it big, if not for the nagging details of his small life. Jimmy lives with his high school sweetheart Annie, their daughter Wendy, and his wheelchair-bound grandmother Ruth in a sagging house propped among the stark suburban sprawl of blue-collar New Jersey. Jimmy finds release amid a lonely stretch of comedy clubs along the Jersey Turnpike. Like a poor man's Lenny Bruce, Jimmy lets fly with a biting commentary on the naked details of his life. As Jimmy's situation devolves with passing year, so too does his routine, until the line between persona and reality is blurred entirely.

    Directed byFrank Whaley
    Written byJonathan Marc Sherman, Frank Whaley
    CompanyFirst Look InternationalFirst Look InternationalFirst Look International

    Starring

    Frank Whaley
    Carla Gugino
    Ethan Hawke
    Lynn Cohen
    Tony Devon
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