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Fired!
Directed by
Kyle LaBrache
,
Chris Bradley
PG-13
2007
71m
Documentary
,
Comedy
5.6
44%
45%
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Annabelle Gurwitch's first-person take on getting the axe.
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Cast of Fired!
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Self
W. Bruce Cameron
Self
Tim Allen
Self
Andy Borowitz
Self
Annabelle Gurwitch
Self / Writer / Producer
Fred Willard
Self
Illeana Douglas
Self
Anne Meara
Self
David Cross
Self
Andy Dick
Self
Tate Donovan
Self
Jeff Garlin
Self
Judy Gold
Self
Richard Kind
Self
Bob Odenkirk
Self
Robert Reich
Self
Jeff Ross
Self
Harry Shearer
Self
Sarah Silverman
Self
Ben Stein
Self
Fisher Stevens
Self
Kyle LaBrache
Director
Chris Bradley
Director
Fired! Ratings & Reviews
Cinerina
Karina Montgomery
Narcisisstic, un-empathetic, but stumbles into genuine entertainment at times despite that.
Washington Post
John Maynard
It's a shame Allen fired her from that play. After all, then she might not have had the time to make this documentary.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
As for her anticorporate muckraking, I can say only that I have watched Michael Moore and I have met Michael Moore, and Gurwitch is no Michael Moore.
Los Angeles Times
Lael Loewenstein
Serious portions, in which Gurwitch appears far too often to be mugging and cracking wise, are intercut with dumb sketches.
AV Club
Noel Murray
A sharper documentarian might've tried harder to bridge the gap between the problems of the legitimate American work force and the struggles of relatively well-off celebrities, but Gurwitch, while charming, isn't exactly brimming with insight.
Chicago Reader
Fred Camper
The video is heavy on actors and other showbiz types, and the self-centered Gurwitch doesn't distinguish between a factory worker laid off after decades on the job and an actor getting rejected during tryouts.
Chicago Tribune
Sid Smith
At the very least, it's gainful, worthwhile employment for its likable star.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
The documentary Fired! contains slivers of shtick that play more as diverting filler than prime comedy material.
Greenwich Village Gazette
Eric Lurio
I was truly shocked when I looked at my watch and what seemed to be an hour and a half was only forty minutes.
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Just when the film seems to be getting bogged down in 'before I made it big' anecdotes, Gurwitch wisely broadens her focus, interviewing ordinary victims of corporate 'right-sizing.'
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The film is funny for the first 10 minutes -- maybe 15 -- but it soon grows tiresome and repetitive.
Murphy's Movie Reviews
Ted Murphy
The filmrambles a bit in places and its structure is veryloose and unformed leaving Fired! assomething of a misfire.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Annabelle Gurwitch was fired from a play by Woody Allen and has been making something of a cottage industry out of the experience ever since. Having written a book about being fired, she has now made a documentary as well, and it's something of a mess.
Newsday
John Anderson
Gurwitch examines what it is about being sacked that gnaws so angrily at the American mentality and how a country that once held the promise of lifelong employment now offers perpetual insecurity.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
The result is generous-spirited, often funny and occasionally striking.
eye WEEKLY
Jason Anderson
The film version makes a sincere if scattershot effort to exorcise its subjects' feelings of hurt and embarrassment through the healing power of comedy.
Village Voice
Michelle Orange
While 'maybe it's for the best' proved happily prophetic for her actor pals, those words of comfort sound more like a clueless bromide when you consider the 30,000 people laid off in Lansing after the film wrapped.
Variety
Joe Leydon
A free-wheeling, first-person docu that recalls early efforts of Michael Moore.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
Documentarians Chris Bradley and Kyle Labrache keep things moving at a nice pace while indulging Gurwitch's possibly too frequent attempts to tie the expanding film in to the event that inspired it.
BlackFilm.com
Kam Williams
The basic message here is that everybody gets fired at some time during their careers, and that being able to laugh at yourself might be the best medicine to deal with that trauma.
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