One day, on his way to work, the consecrated television host Jerry Langford is kidnapped by Rupert Pumpkin, an aspiring comedian obsessed with success, and his friend Masha. Wanting to escape the situation, Langford grants Pumpkin space on his talk show so he can, at last, present his number.
Restored in association with The Film Foundation, Regency Enterprises and Twentieth Century Fox.
The King of Comedy
1982
12 years
109 min.
Fiction
USA
Colorido
Martin Scorsese
Paul D. Zimmerman
Fred Schuler
Thelma Schoonmaker
Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard, Ed Herlihy
Arnon Milchan
Twentieth Century Fox
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