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STANDING UP, FALLING DOWN
“19 Oscar Contenders to Consider… Best Supporting Actor: Billy Crystal, ‘Standing Up, Falling Down’.”
“Continuing the Academy’s failure to recognize some of the comedic greats, it’s a travesty that one of their definitive representatives of the telecast has never gotten on their radar… In the independent film from director Matt Ratner, his role as an alcoholic dermatologist who forms an unlikely friendship with a stand-up comedian (played effortlessly by Ben Schwartz), presents the most urgent moment in his career to give him his overdue citation.”