Joker

Todd Phillips · 2019 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A party clown in a rotting city, living with his mother and carrying a card that explains his uncontrollable laughing fits, loses his social worker to budget cuts and his job to a stolen gun. A late-night host plays a tape of his stand-up as something to laugh at. Built openly out of Scorsese's studies of men nobody looks at.

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