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3 days agoBradley Cooper's Marriage Story
Is This Thing On? centers on a newly single middle-aged man's emotional reconnection and relationship dynamics, using stand-up as a tool for personal reinvention rather than career triumph.
You can see what attracted Lincoln to the part. John is the anti-Grimes. We meet him (once the obligatory opening scene of the character covered in blood and running through some woods is over and we've flashed back to Two months earlier) fleeing the sight of a man in the playground beating up a woman, so panic-stricken that he leaves one of his two children there and has to go back for her.