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Year (Jahr): 2025
Release Date (Veröffentlichungsdatum): 2025-12-19
Duration (Spieldauer): 124 min

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IMDB: 6.8 | Rotten Tomatoes: 87% | Metascore: 72% | TMDB: 6.5
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Director (Regie): Bradley Cooper
Actors (Schauspieler): Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Andra Day
Writers (Drehbuch): Bradley Cooper, Will Arnett, Mark Chappell
Title (Originaltitel): Is This Thing On?
Country (Land): United Kingdom, United States of America
Original language (Original-Sprache): English

Their marriage isn’t collapsing with fireworks. It’s more like a slow Wi-Fi drop. Alex is stuck in that middle-age, divorce-shaped limbo and decides the New York comedy scene might fix his life. Spoiler: jokes don’t un-break a relationship, but they do keep you from thinking too hard at 2 a.m.

Meanwhile, Tess is doing the accounting. Not the cute, inspirational kind. The honest kind. She faces the sacrifices she made for their family and what those choices cost her. That puts them in the real world fast: co-parenting, renegotiating who they are as people, and whether love can somehow mutate into something new after everything falls apart.

„Is This Thing On?“ feels sharp and lived-in, with a dry edge that makes the whole thing land. It’s not a comedy about healing. It’s a comedy about what’s left when you stop pretending.
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Alex und Tess versuchen, ihre Ehe leise sterben zu lassen. So richtig laut knallt da nichts. Eher diese schleichende Erkenntnis, dass beide am selben Tisch sitzen, aber an komplett unterschiedlichen Filmen arbeiten. Alex sucht in der New Yorker Comedy-Szene Ablenkung und Neubeginn. Fun fact: Comedy ist da wahrscheinlich das Einzige, das noch funktioniert, wenn das Privatleben streikt.

Tess dagegen rechnet gnadenlos nach. Welche Opfer sie für ihre Familie gebracht hat, was davon angekommen ist und was sie dabei verloren hat. Und dann wird es praktisch: gemeinsames Sorgerecht, gemeinsame Identität, die Frage, ob Liebe nach dem Bruch überhaupt noch eine neue Form finden kann. „Is This Thing On?“ ist clever, bissig und dabei erstaunlich menschlich. (Und ja, der Film nimmt das Leben genauso ernst wie seine Gags.)

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00:01It's 15 dollars for the Eintritt.
00:04Just something to drink?
00:05Hey!
00:06Why did she come here without paying?
00:08She contacted me at the Open Mic.
00:11Today is the right thing.
00:13So, big applause for Alex Nowak!
00:17I think I'll let myself shine.
00:19What made me angry is that I live in a living room, and not alone.
00:23My wife and children don't live.
00:25That was probably the important point.
00:29What is the problem?
00:31We just lived together.
00:33You two were always different.
00:35And you and Dad were twins?
00:36Your father came to this land.
00:38And I always wanted to love for exotic things.
00:41Why are you doing stand-up?
00:45Is this a kind of hobby?
00:46That's what I'm looking for.
00:51Applaus, Applaus!
00:52It's super!
00:52I'm paying for an apartment and a house for a house, in which I live.
00:57I'm the only one who knows nothing about it?
01:01Have you seen them, Dad?
01:03Sure, I have them.
01:04You knew I had to fight.
01:05You left me alone.
01:08I left you alone?
01:09You turned out!
01:12I was unglücklich in our Ehe.
01:15I was not unglücklich with our Ehe.
01:18Man, I wish you'd give me a point.
01:24You're good.
01:25Not on the stage, I mean here.
01:27You have a good heart.
01:28That's a PLC.
01:29I love you bad!
01:29Very Madrid!ْ
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