The People's Joker

Name: The People's Joker
Genre: Comedy
Released: April 5, 2024
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 78
Cast: David Liebe Hart, Kane Distler, Lynn Downey, Mikal Delaney, Nathan Faustyn

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Altered Innocence | Release Date: April 5, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: David Liebe Hart, Kane Distler, Lynn Downey, Mikal Delaney, Nathan Faustyn, Ruin Carroll, Scott Aukerman, Tim Heidecker, Trevor Drinkwater, Vera Drew

Summary: A painfully unfunny aspiring clown (Vera Drew as Joker the Harlequin) grapples with her gender identity while unsuccessfully attempting to join the ranks of Gotham City’s sole comedy program in a world where comedy has been outlawed. Uniting with a ragtag team of rejects and misfits, Joker the Harlequin forms an illegal anti-comedy troupeA painfully unfunny aspiring clown (Vera Drew as Joker the Harlequin) grapples with her gender identity while unsuccessfully attempting to join the ranks of Gotham City’s sole comedy program in a world where comedy has been outlawed. Uniting with a ragtag team of rejects and misfits, Joker the Harlequin forms an illegal anti-comedy troupe that puts her on a collision course with the devious caped crusader controlling the city.… Expand

Director: Vera Drew

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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Josh Larsen

May 1, 2024

The People’s Joker feels less like the work of someone who wants to watch the Batman burn and more like a refashioning of a modern myth for personal purposes. It’s the ultimate kill-the-author gesture, one that ironically gives birth to another author. No, even better: a community of authors, working together to create something wholly new and true. Read full review

William Bibbiani

Apr 5, 2024

It’s filtering Vera Drew’s autobiographical story through the lens of contemporary popular culture, transforming her own life into myth while transforming corporatized IP into punk rock anarchy. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Clint Worthington

Apr 5, 2024

It’s a film about outsiders, made by outsiders, that feels like outsider art, which is maybe the most exciting thing about it. Read full review

Richard Brody

Apr 8, 2024

It’s a freestanding, freewheeling work that relies on familiar characters to tell a story closer in substance and tone to the sexual fury, social outrage, wild humor, and outlaw freedom of John Waters’s films, and it has a vociferously didactic streak that’s playful yet focussed. Read full review

Jourdain Searles

Apr 17, 2024

Combining comedy, action, drama and an impressive number of different animation styles, The People’s Joker is a self-conscious, intentional cult film, crafted with genuine love for everything in the margins. Read full review

Jacob Oller

Apr 3, 2024

It’s a funky, janky, raw piece of autobiography, masquerading as the only thing the film industry makes anymore: A superhero movie. The riotous and weaponized result is everything the corporate use of the Joker isn’t, and everything it could be. Read full review

Charlotte Simmons

Apr 18, 2024

Its abstract foundation is incredibly fertile creative ground, but 'The People's Joker's nuclear, self-indulgent execution is the downfall to its buzzworthy rise. Read full review

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