A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)
"Being the King of Comedy is no joke."
ThumbScore
👍 65%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 67%
(RT: 67%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Neil Casey as Brian McConnachie
Jon Daly as Bill Murray
Nelson Franklin as P.J. O'Rourke
John Gemberling as John Belushi
Rick Glassman as Harold Ramis
Is A Futile and Stupid Gesture good?
It's divisive. 65% audience score, estimated from 387 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 67%.
Overview
In a life full of triumph and failure, "National Lampoon" co-founder Doug Kenney built a comedy empire, molding pop culture in the 1970s. Wikipedia ↗
