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Road Hard
Bruce Madsen left his film career and decided to play in a comedy club and spend endless nights in a hotel. Over time, this man tries to revive his career, and to revive his passionate life, where Bruce tries one thing for sure: get out safely out of his way.
15 September 1986, Rochester, New York, USA
24 August 1962, Tipton, Missouri, USA
29 December 1984, New York City, New York, USA
8 January 1979, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
24 August 1964, Hopedale, Massachusetts, USA
16 March 1987, San Fernando Valley, California, USA
15 October 1953, Valley Stream, Long Island, New York, USA
13 January 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 September 1961, Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA
7 September 1969, Manhattan, New York, USA
21 March 1973, London, England, UK
April 09, 2015
Here's a comedy about a stand-up comedian trying to get out of the comedy business. And here's my advice to him: Don't quit your day job. You're good at it, and it serves the movie.
March 06, 2015
Road Hard has enough spiky moments to make it worth a watch.
March 06, 2015
This feature directing debut for Adam Carolla and frequent writing/producing collaborator Kevin Hench is an amiable, nicely assembled semi-autobiographical fiction that will please the former's fans.
March 05, 2015
The type of saccharine, predictable movie Carolla has spent his entire career making fun of.
June 25, 2015
A lot rings painfully true about showbiz in Road Hard, a bittersweet look at a middle-aged comic dealing with a stalled career.
March 06, 2015
The man who made girls jump on trampolines delivers better rom-coms than the rest of Hollywood.
April 09, 2015
In the final reel, the tone suddenly shifts from laughs to a deliberately quirky romance that feels forced and, worse, doesn't work.
March 12, 2015
...even when Carolla is on-stage and performing with some type of emotional subtext, this definitely ain't Lenny.
March 05, 2015
The truth is, I found "Road Hard" to be a low-key gem, a consistently funny albeit conventional story about a guy who's almost always the funniest person in the room, and is almost always his own worst enemy.
March 16, 2015
Comedian Adam Carolla mines his own career experiences to amusing effect in his semi-autobiographical dark comedy about an embittered stand-up comic.
April 10, 2015
It's about looking at life as an accumulation of disappointments and having the will to work for something better.
March 06, 2015
Carolla, who co-wrote and co-directed the picture with Kevin Henchis, has a way of making his remarkably stiff screen presence endearing. He plays Bruce with gentle self-mockery and a touch of genuine pathos.