Find Movies & TV
Home
Live TV
On Demand
Discover
Explore
Movies & TV Shows
Most Popular
Leaving Soon
Categories
Action
Animation
Comedy
Crime
Descriptive Audio
Documentary
Drama
En Español
Horror
Music
Romance
Sci-Fi
Thriller
Western
Explore
Browse Channels
Featured Channels
Stargate by MGM
Hallmark Movies & More
The First 48 by A&E
Categories
Hit TV
Drama TV
True Crime
Comedy
News
Sports
Reality
History & Science
Movies
Sci-Fi & Action
Classic TV
Food & Home
Lifestyle
Nature & Travel
Daytime TV
Game Shows
Kids & Family
Anime+
Chills & Thrills
International
En Español
Music
Sign In
Entertainment
Directed by
Rick Alverson
R
2015
1h 53m
Drama
,
Comedy
5.7
85%
45%
Add to Watchlist
En route to meet his estranged daughter and attempting to revive his dwindling career, a broken, middle-aged comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave desert.
More
Where to Watch Entertainment
Fandango at Home Free
Free
Hoopla
Free
Kanopy
Free
+11 more
Cast of Entertainment
Gregg Turkington
The Comedian / Writer
Tye Sheridan
Eddie The Mime
John C. Reilly
John
Lotte Verbeek
The Chromotherapist
Dean Stockwell
Frank
Amy Seimetz
Rene
Tim Heidecker
The Celebrity / Writer
Kalia Prescott
Maria
Tonantzin Carmelo
Teresa
Waymond Lee
Prisoner
Ashley Atwood
Pregnant Woman
David Yow
Party Host
Michael Cera
Tommy
Mariann Gavelo
Sitcom Maria
Brenna Rhea
Poolside Girl
Dustin Guy Defa
Ruben
Annabella Lwin
Sergio Martinez
Fernando
Rick Alverson
Director / Writer
Brooke Bernard
Producer
Dawn Krantz
Producer
Ryan Zacarias
Producer
Patrick Hibler
Producer
Entertainment Ratings & Reviews
The Blue Lenses
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
With Turkington's deft hand, Entertainment methodically deconstructs the world's shallow surfaces.
Counterpunch.org
Louis Proyect
Rick Alverson's breakthrough film about a bitter, aging stand-up comedian who is a character that Nathaniel West might have conceived.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
There's a chic emptiness to "Entertainment," undoubtedly, and anti-comedy constructs that may rub the wrong way, but there's also a spiky intelligence at work too, one that engages through the artifice of disengagement and the illusion of "performance."
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
It is not fun, but its confrontational style yields dividends.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
A daring and mainly successful black comedy about a dour and depressive comedian on a dead-end tour of California.
RogerEbert.com
Tasha Robinson
The Comedian is an ugly man with an ugly soul, and an ugly sense of comedy that at one point literally includes making fart noises for 90 full seconds as he pretends to gun down his silent audience with a soccer trophy.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Weirdly compelling if student-y and unfocused ...
Wall Street Journal
Steve Dollar
Get with the extreme deadpan tone and long takes, though, and the film feels as brave as it is potentially exasperating.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
I left this barbed portrait of a cracking-up comic with more than a little respect for its fearless director, Rick Alverson, and his trusting star, Gregg Turkington. You can't deny that they're a match made in heaven.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
It's a portrait of the comedy tour as odyssey of madness, a plummet into the abyss.
Film Journal International
Nick Schager
[Gregg Turkington gives] a magnetic lead turn that, like the rest of the provocative action, is designed to repulse.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
You know the way you can walk out after even a thoughtful, accomplished drama - and then never think of it again? Entertainment will stain you, grub you up, maybe ruin your week.
RogerEbert.com
Nick Allen
Entertainment completely owns the mundane, and gives it a new name.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
[Entertainment] offers a fascinating look at the tension between personal aspirations and the harsh realities holding them back.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The film is both jagged and suave, like an orchestrated concept album by a garage band.
Film Comment Magazine
Nicolas Rapold
Turkington's frozen mask of disgust and detachment somehow manages to suggest someone just before and just after being punched.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
Despite its apparently sincere identification with its protagonist, Entertainment feels like a sick joke.
Village Voice
Calum Marsh
It's what new films ought to strive for: to strike back against the familiar.
Slant Magazine
Chris Cabin
It conjures a menacing perspective on how the titular occupation hulls out empathy and cultivates a particularly unsettling strain of cynicism.
Variety
Scott Foundas
Alverson's fourth feature is singular stuff, and it reconfirms the director as one of the truly bold voices in the all-too-homogenous U.S. indie film scene.
Watch Entertainment Videos
Entertainment
Entertainment
Trailer
Take Plex everywhere
Watch free anytime, anywhere, on almost any device.
See the full list of supported devices
Home
Live TV
On Demand
Discover
