95 Miles To Go

Comparisons between Tom Caltabiano's backstage look at Everybody Loves Raymond's Ray Romano and the Jerry Seinfeld documentary COMEDIAN (2002) are inevitable: Both follow the stars of newly defunct TV sitcoms as they return to their stand-up roots. But where COMEDIAN documented the process of developing a brand-new, hourlong routine in small clubs — an arduous undertaking even for a megastar like Seinfeld — Caltabiano's film kicks back and watches Romano trot out his old my-wife-and-kids gags for a series of primed-to-love-it audiences, including a corporate morale-booster for 3,500 where what passes for drama is Romano's concern that a light-blue bit about or...