Rupert Pupkin is a passionate yet unsuccessful comic who craves nothing more than to be in the spotlight and to achieve this, he stalks and kidnaps his idol to take the spotlight for himself.
A very dark
satire that hits straight to home, although it's a hard and quite
uncomfortable ride; De Niro can be seen at his best, and Jerry Lewis
surprises by playing himself - and he's not a nice guy!
Halliwell****: "Amusing, underplayed farce with a tragic lining: a very convincing picture of the media today."
Maltin***1/2: "Pungent black comedy...The denouement is a wow! Too mordant and"sick" for many viewers' taste, though it's all been done with a minimum of exaggeration...and a pair of knock-out performances by De Niro and Lewis"
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