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"Struggling in the shadow of his famous comedian father, a young comic retreats to his hometown when his act bombs in Las Vegas, and where he meets the seemingly dim Jack Parker. Searching for a new comedy routine, he uncovers some not so funny secrets about his family - and discovers their own eccentricities may be just the material he's looking for !"@en
"A young comic retreats to his home town when his act bombs in Vegas. Searching for a new comic routine he uncovers some not so funny secrets about his family. Their eccentricities may be just the material that he is looking for!"@en
"Struggling in the shadow of his famous father (Jerry Lewis), a young comic (Oliver Platt) retreats to his hometown when his act bombs in Las Vegas. He's in for more than a few suprises before learning that his own eccentric family has the best material for a perfect act."@en
"Struggling in the shadow of his famous father (Jerry Lewis), a young comic (Oliver Platt) retreats to his hometown when his act bombs in Las Vegas. He's in for more than a few suprises before learning that his own eccentric family has the best material for a perfect act."
"This hilarious and touching comedy is about a struggling second-generation stage comedian who returns to the England of his childhood to find the source of humor that made his dad so successful. In the process, he discovers some startling secrets in his family's history, and the truth about his father. It is at this point he begins to rediscover the way to make audiences like him again."@en
"A young comedian goes to England to understand his father's early life."
""Tommy Fawkes (Oliver Platt) is the belligerent son of comedy icon George Fawkes (Jerry Lewis). Attempting to carve out a unique niche in the standup arena, he bombs spectacularly in Vegas with his father as a prime witness. So Tommy sets out to reinvent himself and heads to Blackpool, England, the seaside entertainment resort where he was raised until the age of 6 and where his father had his first success. Tommy believes the area is rife with novel entertainment ideas. But the performers he auditions are largely a string of freak-show attractions from a bygone era, with one key exception--the Parker family and principally son Jack (Evans). The knotty dilemma confronting young Fawkes is that the Parker repertoire is akin to routines that established his father as an original voice. It's obvious to him that the British vaudevillians were robbed. The situation darkens further with the news that Jack is his half-brother, the result of a brief liaison between George and Katie"--Variety review, Jan. 30, 1995."@en
"Een jonge Amerikaanse komiek, de in de schaduw werkt van zijn beroemde vader, gaat terug naar zijn Engelse geboorteplaats Blackpool om inspiratie op te doen."
"Struggling in the shadow of his famous father (Jerry Lewis), a young comic (Oliver Platt) retreats to his hometown when his act bombs in Las Vegas. He's in for more than a few surprises before learning that his own eccentric family, with its roots in Blackpool, England, has the best material for a perfect act."@en