The award-winning documentary Call Me Lucky is set to open in theaters on August 8. The documentary features intimate interviews with both comedians and activists alike while telling the story of one of comedies most incredible figures.
Call Me Lucky is the inspiring, triumphant and wickedly funny portrait of one of comedy’s most enigmatic and important figures: Barry Crimmins. The beer-swilling, politically outspoken and whip-smart comic whose efforts in the 70s and 80s fostered the talents of the next generation of standup comedians. But beneath Crimmins’ gruff, hard-drinking, curmudgeonly persona lay an undercurrent of rage stemming from his long-suppressed and horrific abuse as a child – a rage that eventually found its way out of the comedy clubs and television shows and into the political arena.
Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, Call Me Lucky bravely tells Crimmins’ incredible story of transformation from a rage-fueled funnyman into an acclaimed proponent of justice who personified the healing power of comedy.
Interviews in the documentary include Barry Crimmins, Marc Maron, David Cross, Margaret Cho, Patton Oswalt, Tom Kenny, Kevin Meaney, Lenny Clarke, Steven Wright, Billy Bragg, and Cindy Sheehan. Also featured are family members of Barry Crimmins, including Barry’s mother Margaret Hooe and sister Mary Johanna Smith.
Call Me Lucky has won several awards already and received wide critical acclaimed.
- Grand Jury Prize Nominee, Best Documentary – 2015 Sundance Film Festival
- Grand Jury Prize Winner, Best Documentary – 2015 Boston Independent Film Festival
- Best Documentary Feature – 2015 Boulder International Film Festival
- Grand Jury Prize, Best Documentary- 2015 Gasparilla International Film Festival Audience Award – 2015 Chicago Critics Film Festival
- Audience Award, Best Documentary – 2015 Boston Independent Film Festival
- Audience Award – 2015 Chattanooga Film Festival
