Synopsis
A legendary late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision has unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women separated by culture and generation are united by their love of a biting punchline.
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Cast
- Emma ThompsonKatherine Newbury
- Mindy KalingMolly Patel
- Max CasellaBurditt
- Hugh DancyCharlie Fain
- Denis O'HareBrad
- Reid ScottTom Campbell
- Amy RyanCaroline Morton
- Paul Walter HauserMancusco
- John EarlyReynolds
- John LithgowWalter Lovell
Recommendations
- 83
IndieWire
Late Night smartly sends up not just the cloistered world of late night television, but a current cultural climate struggling to evolve in a changing world. - 83
IndieWire
Late Night smartly sends up not just the cloistered world of late night television, but a current cultural climate struggling to evolve in a changing world. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
What makes Late Night — otherwise a largely predictable story in a familiar mold — really pop is Kaling’s script, which is at the blunter and frankly more exciting spectrum of what Kaling has proven herself to be capable of in her writing career thus far. - 80
Screen Daily
Thompson delivers a memorable performance as the abrasive “cold witch,” as someone describes her, perhaps even outdoing Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wars Prada as a delightfully wicked woman of power. - 80
Uproxx
Late Night is going to wind up being one of the best comedies of 2019. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
What makes Late Night — otherwise a largely predictable story in a familiar mold — really pop is Kaling’s script, which is at the blunter and frankly more exciting spectrum of what Kaling has proven herself to be capable of in her writing career thus far. - 80
Screen Daily
Thompson delivers a memorable performance as the abrasive “cold witch,” as someone describes her, perhaps even outdoing Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wars Prada as a delightfully wicked woman of power. - 80
Uproxx
Late Night is going to wind up being one of the best comedies of 2019.
