Crying with Laughter

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Crying with Laughter
Review added by
David Beckett

A Bad Trip Down Memory Lane
Certificate: 18
Running Time: 90
Retail Price: £16.99
Release Date: 24/01/2011
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
Joey Frisk is a stand-up comic whose life has just stopped being funny. In the most important week of his career, with an American talent scout flying in to Edinburgh to check out his act, his life begins to unravel.

Already struggling with an addiction to cocaine, he's barely able to cope with the responsibilities he shares with his ex-wife Karen when it comes to looking after their young daughter, Amy. When his landlord promises to evict him for not paying his rent, Joey retaliates that night during his act, threatening to kill the man in front of a captive audience.

Things spiral further out of control when Joey wakes up the next day and is arrested for Grievous Bodily Harm. His landlord is in hospital with a fractured skull and the police have witnesses as to Joey's abusive threats. To make matters worse, Joey has no memory of what happened. Looking for help, he turns to Frank Archer, a former friend who has recently walked back into his life. Together at military school 25 years earlier, Frank is keen that he and Joey get reacquainted and offers to take him into the home he shares with his much younger girlfriend Colette. But as Joey finds out, friendship is the last thing on Frank's mind.

Special Features:
• Feature Commentary by the director, producer and cast
• Making of documentary
• "Becoming Joey Frisk" short documentary
• "The Inspiration behind Crying with Laughter" round table discussion between the director and cast
• Edinburgh Festival launch party comedy gig with Stephen McCole
• Comedy sets
• Deleted Scenes
• Joey Frisk Joke Book

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