| The Comedy | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Rick Alverson |
| Produced by | JagJaguwar, Greyshack Films |
| Written by | Rick Alverson Robert Donne Colm O'Leary |
| Starring | Tim Heidecker Eric Wareheim James Murphy Gregg Turkington Kate Lyn Sheil Alexia Rasmussen |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Comedy is an upcoming dramatic film directed and co-written by Rick Alverson, and starring Tim Heidecker. Supporting actors include Eric Wareheim (Tim and Eric), James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem), and Gregg Turkington (better known as Neil Hamburger). The film will be screened in-competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival[1] Despite the title and use of comedians as actors, Sundance festival director John Cooper says that the film is not a comedy, but instead "a provocation, a critique of a culture based at its core around irony and sarcasm and about ultimately how hollow that is"[2].
Indifferent even to the prospects of inheriting his father’s estate, Swanson (Heidecker) whiles away his days with a group of aging Brooklyn hipsters, engaging in acts of recreational cruelty and pacified boredom. Desensitized and disenchanted, he strays into a series of reckless situations that may offer the promise of redemption or the threat of retribution.[3]