At the height of the stand-up comedy boom of the 1980s, Punchline offered the revelation that many comedians were, in fact, rather psychologically unstable individuals for whom performing was an outlet for hostility and aggression. Wow--who would have guessed? This film focuses on two who meet and forge an unlikely friendship: Tom Hanks plays a caustic, self-destructive comic looking for his big break and Sally Field plays a more Roseanne-like comedian who begins neglecting her husband (John Goodman) and children because she gets such a kick out of performing. The... offstage stuff is strictly soap opera, but Hanks and Field both develop solid comedic rhythms once they get behind a microphone. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com [show more]
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Steven (Tom Hanks) is a medical student and Lilah (Sally Field) is a housewife. They both have ambitions to be stand-up comics and meet while performing at the Gas Station club in Manhattan. Despite their differences in age and class, they fall in love, but tensions arise when they are both competing in the same talent contest.
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