Documentary filmmakers Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg cover a year in the life of the stand-up comic, and they find, beneath the surgically stretched and smoothed mask (with abundant archive footage to show how she used to look), a vulnerable, driven, hard-working, needy, even desperate human being, albeit not a terribly funny or discriminating comedienne. There turns out to be much more to her than you see in the red-carpet host for the Academy Awards. (2010) — Duncan Shepherd
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