Synopsis
An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.
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Cast
- Keegan-Michael KeyJack
- Gillian JacobsSamantha
- Chris GethardBill
- Kate MicucciAllison
- Tami SagherLindsay
- Mike BirbigliaMiles
- Richard MasurLou
- Sondra JamesBonnie
- Richard KlineMr. Coughlin
- Emily SkeggsShy Sarah
Recommendations
- 100
The Playlist
An honest and sharply drawn account of the eternal questions of ego, friendship, and sacrifice in the comedy world. - 100
New York Magazine (Vulture)
It’s funny and inspiring and harsh and depressing. It’s steeped in existential dread. I don’t know how Birbiglia pulled it off, but he gets the minutiae of an improv-comedy show thrillingly right while using the form to build a kind of allegory of the corrosive effects of capitalism. - 91
IndieWire
A delicately wrought ensemble piece with first-rate turns by Gillian Jacobs, Keegan-Michael Key, and Birbiglia himself, Don't Think Twice scrutinizes its playful setting and finds an ideal entry point for exploring creative desperation. - 90
The New Yorker
Birbiglia films what he knows, offering ample and intricate scenes of improvisations performed onstage, along with an insider’s view of the industry. - 80
Variety
Portraying a cutthroat business in which little is “fair,” Don’t Think Twice acknowledges the bloodshed, but applies the razor with enough empathetic delicacy to earn its cautiously upbeat fade. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
As much as Don't Think Twice focuses on professional envy, though, it remains a love letter to this weirdo art form called improv. - 75
The Film Stage
While Don’t Think Twice depicts a certain world with incisive specificity, its themes of what success truly means are universal to anyone involved in the arts. - 75
Slant Magazine
It displays an intimate chemical understanding of the exhausting and unrelentingly impotent agony of failure.
