Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Directed by John Landis
Produced by Robert Engelman
John Landis
Mike Richardson
Larry Rickles
Starring Don Rickles
Harry Dean Stanton
John Landis
Clint Eastwood
Robert De Niro
Chris Rock
Cinematography Tom Clancey
Editing by Mark L. Levine
Distributed by Home Box Office
Fully Available on Hulu
Release date(s) 2007
Running time 89 mins.
Country U.S.A.
Language English
Budget USD $500,000 (estimated)[1]

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project is a documentary about stand-up comedian Don Rickles.

Contents

Structure

The film consists of performance clips from throughout Rickles' career interspersed with recent interviews with him. A show at the Stardust Casino in Las Vegas from 2006 is featured most prominently. The film also features some of Rickles' notable television and movie appearances, including his many appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. There are also interviews from several stand up performers and celebrities who have encountered Rickles over the years..

Interviewees

Reception

The film was generally well liked by critics who wrote about it. Much of the praise was directed at Rickles himself for being such an engaging personality. One critic compared Rickles and his sense of humor favorably to the racist comments of Michael Richards and the anti-Semitic statements of Mel Gibson writing:

"While Rickles seems to mock ethnicity, body type, weight, age and all the other stuff that we're not supposed to make fun of, he's actually defusing all of those things. And once they're deflated by humor, they lose, at least for a moment, their potency. What becomes clear in Landis' film is that Rickles is really a softie, a guy who loves humanity and life. The guy they still call Mr. Warmth really is, and that's apparently the worst-kept secret in show business. When Richards lost it at the comedy club, he was spewing pure hate. Rickles wouldn't know hate if it bit him in the butt."[2]

Critics also noted how Landis seemed at least as interested in showcasing Rickles's humor as he did in Rickles' life.[3][4]

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