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English. Folk Hero & Funny Guy is a 2016 American comedy film written, directed, and produced by Jeff Grace, in his directorial debut. It stars Alex Karpovsky, Wyatt Russell, Meredith Hagner, Michael Ian Black, Hannah Simone, Heather Morris, Melanie Lynskey, and David Cross . The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April ...
May 11, 2017 · The effortlessly engaging “Folk Hero & Funny Guy” begins with the two title characters — a charismatic musician and a struggling stand-up comedian — recalling the same adventure from ...
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May 12, 2017 · Folk Hero & Funny Guy. A rambling road trip story with no real point to it, “Folk Hero & Funny Guy” attempts to be a sweet comedy about two friends in respective ruts attempting to break out of them together. Instead, it’s mostly a series of loosely connected scenes about such a concept combined with a needless, half-baked love triangle.
May 7, 2017 · Jeff Grace’s Folk Hero & Funny Guy tells a familiar story of a friendship between alpha and beta males, which thrives on a carefully replenished cocktail of mutual admiration and resentment. Jason (Wyatt Russell) is a successful contemporary folk singer who wakes up every midafternoon with a different gorgeous young woman, while his childhood ...
May 12, 2017 · The road trip buddy comedy formula has endured in film because it is a very easy and relatable framework. Well, that, and because they’re relatively cheap to produce. However, the key to any comedy is that it needs to be funny, and despite the word being right in the title, Folk Hero & Funny Guy just isn’t. Or, at the very least, the comedy ...
May 12, 2017 · Folk Hero & Funny Guy: Directed by Jeff Grace. With Alex Karpovsky, Wyatt Russell, Meredith Hagner, Melanie Lynskey. A successful singer-songwriter hatches a plan to help his friend's struggling comedy career and broken love life by hiring him as his opening act on his solo tour.
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- 2017-05-12
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May 12, 2017 · In FOLK HERO & FUNNY GUY, Paul ( Alex Karpovsky) has just suffered a terrible break-up, his standup comedy career is going nowhere, and he's starting to think that maybe he should go back into ad copywriting. Meanwhile, his old friend -- mellow, bearded Jason ( Wyatt Russell) -- has become a successful folk rock singer and is preparing to go on ...
