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6.6 of 10 (398 reviews)

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Saturday Night - Watch Movie

At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. This is the story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live.

Type:

Movie

Genre:

Comedy, Drama, History,

Release Date:

Sep 27, 2024

Director:

Jason Reitman,

Writer:

Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan,

Cast:

Gabriel LaBelle, Cooper Hoffman, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith, Dylan O'Brien, Lamorne Morris, Willem Dafoe, J.K. Simmons, Nicholas Braun, Kaia Gerber, Andrew Barth Feldman, Emily Fairn, Ella Hunt, Kim Matula, Matt Wood, Matthew Rhys, Finn Wolfhard, Jon Batiste, Taylor Gray, Mcabe Gregg, Tommy Dewey, Nicholas Podany, Drew Scheid, Ellen Boscov, Billy Bryk, Joe Chrest, Naomi McPherson, Catherine Curtin, Leander Suleiman, Jeff Pope, Presley Coley, James Logan, Justin Matthew Smith, Abraham Hsu, William C. Tate, Rick Moose, John Dinello, Marko Caka, Rowan Joseph, Celeste Blandon, Stephen Badalamenti, Mary-Clare Bone, Dalton Causey, Dylan Bickel, Arlo Lachenmeyer,

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Manuel São Bento 12/10/2024

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://talkingfilms.net/saturday-night-review-capturing-the-chaos-and-magic-of-snls-first-broadcast/ "Saturday Night successfully captures the frenetic energy and spontaneous magic of the behind-the-scenes world of SNL, transporting us to the heart of the organized chaos of a live broadcast. Through engaging camera work and fast-paced editing, Jason Reitman and his team recreate the palpable nervousness and unique humor that shaped an iconic show. It's a celebration of the talents who came together to create one of the most enduring, influential phenomena in television history. An irresistible tribute to all who dared to dream big, even when success seemed unlikely." Rating: B+

CinemaSerf 05/02/2025

I think my problem with this was that I remember seeing that opening sketch not long after it was aired in 1975 and it wasn’t funny. That’s kind of what I felt about this whole thing as it in real-time takes us through the ninety minutes before transmission of its creative producer Lorne Michaels (Gabrielle Labelle). The show is nowhere near ready to go, with three hours worth of content slated to fill ninety minutes. His lead talent - George Carlin (Matthew Rhys) thinks the whole thing is rubbish, and John Belushi (Matt Wood) and Chevy Chase (Corey Michael Smith) can’t stand the sight of each other. Meantime, network boss Dave Tebet (Willem Defoe) if menacing about the place with one of those totally supportive faces a football manager gets before he’s fired and the presence of Andy Kaufman (Nicholas Braun), a llama and a pile of bricks doesn’t leave us with much hope it’ll ever make the air, either. What ensues may well have been the very messy, caesarean, birth of an American institution but for those of us elsewhere in the world, this humour is passé and LaBelle’s passing resemblance to Dudley Moore seems to further intensify just how desperate this nation was to get past the scrupulous thought police (Catherine Curtin) who thought a golden shower was something from a Disney movie. It’s designed to bring together just about every form of innovative comedy, and a very extended version of Janis Ian singing “At Seventeen”, to signal a new direction for late night television but that doesn’t make this either particularly entertaining or enlightening. It’s worth a watch, but if this show isn’t already a part of your psyche, then it’s unlikely this effort will change that.

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