Synopsis

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work takes the audience on a year long ride with legendary comedian Joan Rivers in her 76th year of life. Peeling away the mask of an iconic comedian and exposing the struggles, sacrifices and joy of living life as a ground breaking female performer. The film is an emotionally surprising and revealing portrait of one the most hilarious and long-standing career women ever in the business.

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Film Information

• Genre: Documentary
• Director: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg
• Starring: Joan Rivers, Don Rickles, Kathy Griffin, and Melissa Rivers
• Running Time: 84 minutes, approx.
• MPAA Rating: R for language and sexual humor
• Language: English
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Reviews

"She's a teller of hilarious gutbucket truths as surely as Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor ever were. Yet while they were consumed by their demons, Rivers is just the opposite."

   - Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

"It's one of the best documentaries ever made about show business, about what it really consists of and what it demands."

   - Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

"A Piece of Work is the antithesis of Jerry Seinfeld�s engaging but superficial 2002 documentary "Comedian": where the innately private Seinfeld holds nearly everything back, Rivers loudly broadcasts the kind of fears, anxieties, and ambitions most people would do anything to hide."

   - Nathan Rabin, The Onion (A.V. Club)

"This convulsively funny movie takes an up-close and sometimes queasy-personal approach to its motormouth subject, who, when she�s not making you howl with laughter (or freeze up in horror), brandishes her deeply held hurts, fears, prejudices, poor judgment and bad taste as if they were stigmata."

   - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

"Fascinating and has a lot of laughs in it."

   - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Showtimes

• Friday, July 30th
  4:30 pm
• Saturday, July 31st
  12:00 pm, 2:00 pm, 6:45 pm
• Sunday, August 1st
  12:00 pm
• Monday, August 2nd
  6:45 pm
• Tuesday, August 3rd
  4:30 pm
• Wednesday, August 4th
  4:30 pm
• Thursday, August 5th
  6:45 pm
• Friday, August 6th
  7:00 pm
• Saturday, August 7th
  12:15 pm, 4:45 pm
• Sunday, August 8th
  12:15 pm
• Monday, August 9th
  7:00 pm
• Tuesday, August 10th
  4:45 pm
• Wednesday, August 11th
  4:45 pm
• Thursday, August 12th
  7:00 pm
• Friday, August 13th
  5:00 pm
• Saturday, August 14th
  7:30 pm
• Sunday, August 15th
  12:30 pm
• Monday, August 16th
  7:30 pm
• Tuesday, August 17th
  5:00 pm
• Wednesday, August 18th
  5:00 pm
• Thursday, August 19th
  7:30 pm