Mr. Saturday Night | 
| Actors: Sage Allen, Julius Branca, Josh Byrne, Ben Diskin, Kay Freeman
Studio: Polygram Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.95
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 112155
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 119 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: PMVD0582092D
ISBN: 6305181365
UPC: 044005820928
EAN: 9786305181361
ASIN: 6305181365
Theatrical Release Date: September 23, 1992
Release Date: December 8, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Billy crystal shines in his directorial debut as the legendary comedian bobby young jr. the most famous comic nobodys every heard of. Studio: Ingram Entertainment Release Date: 11/17/1998 Starring: Billy Crystal Run time: 119 minutes Rating: R Director: Billy Crystal
Amazon.com
Billy Crystal co-wrote, directed, and starred in this ambitious 1992 comedy-drama about an aged comedian named Buddy Young Jr., whose foul attitude and poor judgment have a strongly negative effect on his career and the people who care for him most. A survivor of the Borscht Belt tradition of stand-up comedians, Buddy's quick with a one-liner but clueless about how to treat people--he's like a cross between George Burns, Milton Berle, and a rabid pit bull. Helen Hunt plays Buddy's tolerant new agent who's been hired to revive his lagging career, but the movie's saving grace is David Paymer's Oscar-nominated performance as Buddy's much-maligned brother, who's helpless to stop Buddy's downward spiral. Having invented the Buddy Young character for his own comedy routines, Crystal knows this comic curmudgeon inside and out, and his show-biz savvy adds much-needed authenticity under layers of phony-looking old-age makeup. The movie works best when it's offering insight into Buddy's lifetime of disappointment, and some of the dialogue is memorably sharp. Crystal can't resist a seemingly forced happy ending, however, and the closing scenes resort to sentimentality that clashes with the rest of the movie. --Jeff Shannon
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 Directionless May 15, 2009
Christopher Busch (Wyoming, MI 49519)
This movie had some interesting and funny material at the beginning, but quickly became unfunny, diirectionless, and seem to drag on like nothing else Crystal has ever created. When I initially saw the film in the theatre, as the movie dragged on, people were heading for the exits in droves, us included.
 Billy at his best March 15, 2007
Brian N. MacDougall
This movie was a revelation, I have always liked his acting but this is the best of his movies that I have seen.
 About a funny guy who is also pretty nasty May 4, 2006
Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Billy Crystal stars as an aging stand-up comic (Buddy Young, Jr.) with a mean streak in him. The movie starts off slowly and seemingly predictably, with Crystal and his brother (played by David Paymer) doing comedy together in their Jewish living room to all the relatives, getting some early breaks, and heading up the showbiz ladder. But Paymer opts out of the routine and becomes Cyrstal's manager. After many years and now on the decline, they have a falling out, but reconcile at the end. Comedians have enormous egos, and Crystal as Buddy wouldn't think twice about putting someone down for a laugh. (I've heard the same thing said about the real life Groucho Marx, whose insults directed as his family were funny to everyone except his family. But he didn't care as long as he got a laugh.) He's a funny guy, Buddy is, but not a nice one. The second half of the movie is much better than the first. Humor is in the mind of the beholder (sort of like beauty), and I thought the jokes were mildly funny. It certainly is not the worst movie ever made as some reviewers here seem to think.
 It deserved zero stars, actually. Terrible. January 20, 2006
Filmfan (Denmark)
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
Read the negative Amazon comments - they are right. Terrible in all respects. If you like this film, you probably will find the telephone book extremely entertaining.
A Truly Horrid Movie January 17, 2006
nje (Melbourne, Australia)
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
I'm not normally one to complain about movies but thought I'd go out of my way to warn people of this terrible, terrible movie.
It dragged on for (what seemed to be) forever, was not funny and was lacking any sort of direction.
I'm normally a fan of Billy Crystal and usually find him funny and quite entertaining. In this movie however he was nothing short of irritating. Talk about a career killer.
Seriously folks, save your money for something decent.
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