October 3, 2019
Director: Todd Phillips; Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz; Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller; Age: 14+; Time: 121 minutes
“Joker” centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, stand-alone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society.
A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.
