Saturday Night

Name: Saturday Night
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Comedy
Released: September 27, 2024
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 60

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Sony Pictures Releasing | Release Date: September 27, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: At 11:30pm on October 11th, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. Find out what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live.

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 109 min

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Maureen Lee Lenker

Sep 4, 2024

It's a wildly entertaining love letter to a night of television that marked a cultural watershed. Read full review

Jim Slotek

Oct 1, 2024

Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night is a representation of 90 eventful minutes of TV history as tightly packed narratively as a neutron star. It is about that tightly wound as well. For a movie about the debut of Saturday Night Live, the show that changed comedy, the experience is more anxiety than humour. Read full review

Siddhant Adlakha

Sep 27, 2024

With a cast that takes wildly different approaches to characters we already know from film and TV, and a camera that never slows down, Saturday Night is chaotic in wildly enjoyable ways. The lead-up to the historic premiere of SNL plays like an extended 90-minute climax. Read full review

Oliver Jones

Oct 8, 2024

The nostalgia is so thick in Saturday Night, Jason Reitman’s furiously busy paean to the nascent days of SNL, so unrelenting and potent, that eventually it unmoors from the film and begins swallowing its characters whole, like the titular alien in Steve McQueen’s The Blob. Read full review

Matt Singer

Oct 10, 2024

Reitman clearly made this film from a place of love and admiration for the institution of SNL and the people, then and now, who produce it. He might get the facts wrong at times; what he gets right is the feeling that every fan who grows up watching SNL imagines the show is like behind the scenes — giddy and chaotic and brimming with passionate creativity. Read full review

Jesse Hassenger

Sep 25, 2024

It’s more akin to speed-reading from the SNL memoir library than experiencing the thrilling unevenness—the captivating try-whatever stupidity—of the actual live show. It’s inconsequential in all the wrong places. Read full review

The Guardian Benjamin Lee

Sep 12, 2024

There’s never the satisfying pleasure of problems being solved – just people frantically raising them and things magically coming together, a film that should be about process that doesn’t seem particularly interested in it. Read full review

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