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Funny Cow 2017 1h 42m Comedy Drama List 79% Tomatometer 42 Reviews 71% Audience Score 100+ Ratings A female comic bounces around before rising to the top in the 1970s and 1980s.
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- Maxine Peake
- Adrian Shergold
- Comedy, Drama
Funny Cow is unusual enough to hold attention, but nonetheless a misfire: incoherent, arty in the wrong ways and often bizarrely misjudged. Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 20, 2018 ...
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Apr 22, 2018 · Funny Cow review – grit and wit. T here are several moments in this astringently uncomfortable tragicomedy – which boasts a blistering central performance by Maxine Peake – that will leave ...
- Mark Kermode
- 2 min
Oct 23, 2017 · ‘Funny Cow’: Film Review | London 2017. Maxine Peake stars as a working-class woman who longs to be a stand-up comedian in 'Funny Cow,' a British comedy-drama co-starring Paddy Considine and ...
Oct 11, 2017 · Funny Cow review – Maxine Peake blazes in the dark days of standup. Peake is hypnotically belligerent as an ambitious club performer trampling over prejudice and sticky carpets on the 1970s ...
- Peter Bradshaw
- 2 min
Apr 20, 2018 · from our May 2018 issue. Maxine Peake as the eponymous star of Funny Cow. Definitely a drama about a comic rather than a comedy-drama, Adrian Shergold ’s tough little tale of a woman battling on to the 1970s northern comedy circuit is all sharp edges, despite its playful title. Far from the sentimental housewife-on-stage laughs of Punchline ...
Apr 20, 2018 · Maxine Peake’s latest film isn’t a comedy. It’s a drama about humour, set in a time and place when, to adopt the vernacular of late 20th-century Yorkshire, a big “cock” is a must-have item.
