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...never quite works for Buddy Young Jr. (Billy Crystal) in the prodigiously funny biopic Mr. Saturday Night. A Jewish kid with a talent to amuse, Buddy lusts for those irreconcilable opposites: to be loved and to be himself. To be all-American and 100% kosher. Buddy begins by facing a Catskills audience so primed for Yiddish comedy that when he says, "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen," a guy in the front row keens, "Oy! English!" He ends in Florida, nearly a half-century later, doing the same routines for an invalid army of the Jewish sun set. In between...
DIRECTOR: BILLY CRYSTAL...
WRITERS: BILLY CRYSTAL, LOWELL GANZ AND BABALOO MANDEL...
...Saturday Night Crystal portrays Young as a comic who has spent 50 years fighting his way to the middle. Buddy has come close to stardom several times in his career, but each time his antagonistic personality blows...
Underneath a myriad of laughs, the sincere pathos of Crystal's Mr. Saturday Night will leave you believing in the goodness and brilliance of a fat, balding, has-been...