The hard lives and times of standup comedians is the subject of THE MONTANA RUN, a rambling, largely misguided road movie.
Working out of a condemned house in Tacoma, smalltime promoter Doug Atkin (Ron Reid) puts together standup comedy shows for one-week tours on the title's "Montana run" of seedy lounges, roughneck bars and college campuses. For his latest effort, he's conned Andy Miller (played by
writer-producer-director Randy Thompson), a stuffy headliner from San Francisco, and Charlie McKnight (Thompson's wife, Mayme Paul-Thompson), a divorced-mom lady comic, to join him and his loutish MC Brock Mason (Dan Lishner) for a trip through what turns out to be ...
Released:
1992
Rated:
NR
Length:
97 mins