Winner of the Audience Award at the Slamdance Film Festival, this realistic comedy tells the story of Henry Phillips, a hapless modern day troubadour who grinds his way through the heartland, living out of his car and singing his twisted satirical songs to anyone who will listen. After a booking mishap involving a Christian fund raiser, he decides he's hit rock bottom. Seeking to shake things up, he moves to L.A. where his luck changes overnight. Thanks less to his inept mana... (Full plot summary below)
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Winner of the Audience Award at the Slamdance Film Festival, this realistic comedy tells the story of Henry Phillips, a hapless modern day troubadour who grinds his way through the heartland, living out of his car and singing his twisted satirical songs to anyone who will listen. After a booking mishap involving a Christian fund raiser, he decides he's hit rock bottom. Seeking to shake things up, he moves to L.A. where his luck changes overnight. Thanks less to his inept manager than to a wild case of mistaken identity, he falls backwards into a string of packed gigs, a record deal and even the promise of love. But he who lives by the whimsy of show business dies by it, and reality hits him like a fist in the face: an innocent miscommunication over a bagel brands him a neo-Nazi in the world of tabloid journalism. Luckily, somewhere between rock bottom and nowhere lies the perfect terrain for his dark and hilarious songs.
Leave your thoughts about Punching the Clown.
| amNewYorkRobert LevinThe film is an amiable, self-mocking satire about L.A.'s vacuous showbiz types. |
| Shockya.comPerri NemiroffNot just a movie about a guy trying to make it in showbiz; it's about a guy you feel like you know personally and that connection makes all the difference. |
| MovielineMichelle OrangeThe result is a shaggy rise-and-fall story that is deceptively well-wrought, playing at times like an extremely hip, deep-access concert film. |
| New York PostKyle SmithSee his movie now, brag about your discerning taste for undiscovered talent later. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckAlthough its sendup of L.A.'s shallow, self-absorbed show business culture is not exactly revelatory, the film does deliver solid laughs, many of them thanks to Philips' wittily provocative, surprisingly hostile confessional ditties. |
| Time OutEric HynesWhile never uproarious, Punching the Clown exudes the clever, warped sincerity of its star, eschewing uppercuts for a series of playful jabs. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodyThe comic folksinger Henry Phillips stars in this wry, poignant, smartly satirical comedy as himself, and puts himself into uneasy situations in which he doesn't always come out as the hero. |
| Village VoiceAaron HillisPunching the Clown mirrors Henry's act: a minor triumph whose cult following doesn't yet know it exists. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanEvery aspiring performer will appreciate Gregori Viens' unassuming comedy, which cheerfully skewers industry pretensions and media-fueled trends. |
| The New York TimesMike HaleHolding things together are Mr. Phillips's quiet charm and his songs, which really are funny. |
