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The People's Joker
Directed by
Vera Drew
Not Rated
2024
1h 32m
Comedy
,
Fantasy
6.3
96%
66%
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An aspiring clown grappling with her gender identity combats a fascistic caped crusader.
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Cast of The People's Joker
Vera Drew
Joker the Harlequin / Director / Writer
Lynn Downey
Joker's Mom
Kane Distler
Mr. J
Nathan Faustyn
Penguin
David Liebe Hart
Ra's Al Ghul
Phil Braun
Batsy (voice)
Griffin Kramer
Young Joker
Christian Calloway
Doctor Crane
Trevor Drinkwater
Edward Nygma aka The Riddler
Ruin Carroll
Ivy (voice)
Tim Heidecker
Perry White (voice)
Denali Winter
Clark
Bambi Belle
Lois
Ember Knight
Mxy (voice)
Bob Odenkirk
Bob the Goon (voice)
Scott Aukerman
Mister Frieze (voice)
Alec Robbins
Mr. Boop
Sandy Honig
Mr. Boop’s Wife
Dan Curry
Bane
Cassie Hamilton
Nicole Kidman
Jay Speedy Weingarten
The Clown Who Gags
Matthew Goldin
Stiles Stilinski
Eliot Glazer
Lil Timmy Too Times
Cricket Arrison
'Creeper'
Mia Moore Marchant
Helena the Huntress
Maria Bamford
Lorne Michaels (voice)
Robert Wuhl
Robert Wuhl
Austen Reeder
Smylex Narrator
Abby Clark
Sad Wife
Benjamin Morey
Golfing Husband
Dan Kypers
UCB Orientation Narrator / Mad Hatter
Jeremy Franchi
Suicide Cop
Ted Reidy
Jimmy Olsen
Daniella Baker
Catwoman
Lydia Wolfie
Anarky / Harlequin Auditioner
David Allen
Suicide Cop's Partner
Nateo Caballero
UCB Receptionist
Arden Hughes
Audition System (voice)
Harry McDonough
UCB MC / Det. Harvey Bullock
Rome Davis
Therapist
Jeremy Long
Det. Melody McKenna
Elanor Cassady
Hotline Operator
Susan&Denise
Serve the Date Ladies
Beatrice DiCicco
Newscaster 1
Emily Lynch
Newscaster 2 (voice)
Michelle Stone
Newscaster 3
Ashe Pignataro
Newscaster 4
Calvin DiLibero
Warmup Jokeman
Zoe Limbrick
Warmup Harlequin
Jack Walker Nixon
Ledger Jokeman
Isabella Marino
Dini Harlequin 1
Wylie Anderson
Dini Harlequin 2
Jake Noll
Freddy
Bri LeRose
Writer
Joey Lyons
Producer
The People's Joker Ratings & Reviews
The Ringer
Adam Nayman
The best satire splits the difference between affection and contempt, and the debut of Vera Drew, the comedy writer turned DIY dynamo, is no different.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
Original, daring, and definitely not for everyone.
Observer
Dylan Roth
Shot over five days, this very indie movie stars writer-director Vera Drew as Joker the Harlequin and borrows liberally from the Batman universe to tell a story of personal discovery.
Filmspotting
Adam Kempenaar
Savage and sweet - Drew attacks every target from a place of appreciation and experience.
Salon.com
Kelly McClure
The People's Joker will likely become a gateway for queers, of any age, inspired to right wrongs in a truly gay way. As is our right.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Like no superhero movie before it, the subversive coming-of-age story reinvents the villain's origins with a mélange of visual styles and a barrage of gags.
Washington Post
Jen Yamato
It would be easy to mire this Joker in the darkness of her predecessors, but Drew finds a radically affirming way through.
Perri Nemiroff (YouTube)
Perri Nemiroff
It can be hard to fully put yourself in somebody else's world, but here Vera is letting you into hers by putting her own spin of characters we're already familiar with... It's something special.
The Hollywood Reporter
Jourdain Searles
The People's Joker is a self-conscious, intentional cult film, crafted with genuine love for everything in the margins. And it tells a story everyone can relate to, about a kid growing up and trying to find happiness and success in a dark, troubled world.
Los Angeles Times
Manuel Betancourt
A trans coming-of-age tale, a probing meditation on abusive relationships and a visually inventive reminder of the queer art of camp appropriation.
Breakfast All Day
Alonso Duralde
Unlike any queer film or experimental film I've ever seen. Funny and personal and experimental -- hard to describe, and that's a good thing.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
Drew is an intriguing artist, but The People's Joker is most interesting as a legal case study.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
"The People's Joker," directed by Vera Drew, is the best superhero movie I've ever seen-because, unlike studio-produced films in the genre, it responds to the filmmaker's deep personal concerns.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
[The] protagonist's honesty is refreshingly euphoric, and this allows the laughs her cartoonish antics generate to make a lasting impression that many viewers - Gay, straight, Lesbian, Bi, Trans, whatever - are going to treasure forever.
TheWrap
William Bibbiani
It's filtering Vera Drew's autobiographical story through the lens of contemporary popular culture, transforming her own life into myth while transforming corporatized IP into punk rock anarchy.
RogerEbert.com
Clint Worthington
It's a garish, anarchic gumbo that works because of, not despite, its messiness.
Polygon
Katie Rife
It makes sense that Vera, a passionate fan of the Bat-verse, would use the Joker's character and lore to tell the story of her own transformation from a failed improv comedian into a gloriously unhinged trans agent of comedic chaos.
New York Times
Erik Piepenburg
Within the film's confessional chaos lives the spirit of Vaginal Davis, Ryan Trecartin and other maverick queer filmmakers who toyed with genre to torpedo gender. It's reviving to see an artist take up the cause.
Variety
Peter Debruge
As attention-grabbing calling-card projects go, this one more than demonstrates Drew's ingenuity and organizing power.
AV Club
Leigh Monson
The People's Joker is a chimera built of conflicts and contradictions, but so are we all. Our jigsaw assemblage of human experiences is universally messy, and if there's one thing Drew seems to be telling us, we should be relishing those paradoxes.
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