For some kinds of people, there is no greater poison than to be ignored, and in the documentary
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, we spend just short of 90 minutes watching a textbook example of this personality type in action. Joan Rivers has been a standup comic and actress since the late ’50s, but in this film, as Rivers works her way through her 76th year of life, she’s grimly determined to stay in the spotlight and remain one of the top women in comedy despite age, competition, and the changing shape of show business, and much of the time it seems she doesn’t care what her audience thinks of her just as long as they’re paying attention.
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Released:
2010
Rated:
R
Length:
84 mins