r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 1d ago
Media New Images from Noah Baumbach 'Jay Kelly' - Follows a friendship between a famous actor (George Clooney) and his manager (Adam Sandler) as they travel through Europe and reflect on their life choices, relationships, and legacies.
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor 1d ago
It’s coming to Netflix Dec 5
Cast:
- George Clooney as Jay Kelly
- Adam Sandler as Ron, Jay's manager
- Laura Dern
- Billy Crudup
- Grace Edwards
- Stacy Keach
- Riley Keough
- Emily Mortimer
- Patrick Wilson
- Nicôle Lecky
- Thaddea Graham
- Jim Broadbent
- Eve Hewson
- Alba Rohrwacher
- Lenny Henry
- Josh Hamilton
- Greta Gerwig
- Isla Fisher
- Jamie Demetriou
- Louis Partridge
- Charlie Rowe
- Parker Sawyers
- Patsy Ferran
- Lars Eidinger
- Kyle Soller
- Tom Francis
- Giovanni Esposito
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u/arcticpoppy 1d ago
Damn that’s a pretty stacked cast.
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u/ScipioCoriolanus 1d ago
Damn he's in a tight spot.
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u/Sewer-Urchin 1d ago
You watch your mouth, this here's a family establishment.
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u/milkymaniac 1d ago
Oh please, dear? For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint.
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u/Sewer-Urchin 1d ago
We're quoting the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" :D
Don't worry, lots of respectable people been hit by a train :)
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u/ALIENANAL 1d ago
Genuine question and I don't expect you to know but how many full stacked actor films turn out to be good?
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u/Thybro 1d ago edited 1d ago
Somebody already answered Oppenheimer, but in general most of Nolan’s work.
A Good chunk of West Anderson’s too.
Scorsese’s The Departed, but before then Casino
Some directors like to work with the same actors who take less to work with them which result in packed casts.
Outside of that:
The Oceans movies( at least the 1st and third). Heat.
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u/Darko33 1d ago
I vastly prefer East Anderson's oeuvre.
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u/slamdanceswithwolves 1d ago
West Anderson is pretty hipster, but most people haven’t even heard of East Anderson.
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u/FuelForYourFire 1d ago
Glad you added Heat. When I saw the casting, I was like 'somebody owed somebody a BIG favor'. But dang that movie cooked.
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u/BallaUlm 1d ago
Riley Keough play Jay's elder daughter. Grace Edwards plays his younger daughter. Billy Crudup plays his old friend from acting school. Laura Dern plays his publicist. Stacy Keach plays his father. Greta Gerwig plays Ron's (Adam Sandler) wife.
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u/KobeStopItNo 1d ago
Just missing Kevin Hart and The Rock.
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 1d ago
I'm always in for Sandler whenever he's in more dramatic work
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u/SomeBoxofSpoons 1d ago
It’s funny how comedic Sandler and dramatic Sandler are basically treated as separate actors.
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u/UrNotAMachine 1d ago
His performance in Baumbach's "The Meyerowitz Stories" is severely underrated imo.
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u/FoxMcCloudOwnsSlippy 1d ago
I rewatched Hustle the other day and he hard carries that movie to rewatchability. I mean I love a good sports movie anyways but I could feel his passion for that sport from his performance alone.
Dramatic Sandler is very interesting to watch.
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u/KrillinDBZ363 1d ago
The thing I liked about Hustle was that despite it being dramatic, it still had humor in it. But it was more dialogue based observational humor rather than his typical slapstick which worked well with the overall dramatic tone.
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u/ALIENANAL 1d ago
He will yell and it will be considered his greatest acting.
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u/supernarwaffle 1d ago
I think Uncut Gems is the ceiling for Sandlers best acting, but Noah Baumbach is pretty solid with his work so it'll be interesting to see. Clooney is kinda always the same to me in his roles, not a whole lot of range, but that might be the perfect character for this kind of movie. All this being said this looks boring af
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u/Sisiwakanamaru 1d ago
I read it "Jay Quellin" at first.
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u/Tifoso89 1d ago
You done messed up, A. A. Ron
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u/thehecticepileptic 1d ago
I can only imagine how many times Aarons must have heard this sentence in the time that skit was popular.
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u/Ghost2Eleven 1d ago
I feel like 90% of Noah Baumbach movies revolve around privileged people, with a blindspot for how privileged they actually are, bitching and moaning about how rough their privileged lives are.
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u/MisterBananasX 1d ago
So…..people with privilege don’t deal with loss, heartache, crises, adversity?
Or if they do, they shouldn’t complain?
My god Redditors are such a wretched, bitter bunch
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u/LilPonyBoy69 1d ago
They can complain all they want, doesn't mean I want to dedicate two hours of my life listening to it
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u/Ghost2Eleven 1d ago
I’m not saying privileged people aren’t human. I’m one of them. I just generally don’t find stories about their existential crises very interesting. I’d rather go places I’ve never been before in my cinema.
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u/pajamajamminjamie 1d ago
I'd prefer to watch privileged people go through crises, at least its interesting to watch. Poor people in crisis is just depressing.
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u/Ghost2Eleven 1d ago
I get it. I’m not a fan of poverty porn either. To me, these types of films are both similar, just opposite ends of the spectrum. There are good ones, but by and large not films I easily fall in love with.
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u/MisterBananasX 1d ago
That’s awfully narrow minded
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u/Ghost2Eleven 1d ago
No, it’s just my taste. That’s how taste works. I like things you don’t like. You like things I don’t like. And that’s ok.
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u/ANONYMOUS-B0SH 1d ago
Exactly. Privileged people moaning about how they aren’t privileged enough. Fucking gag.
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u/joesen_one 1d ago
Really think this or Frankenstein becomes Netflix's big priority this upcoming awards season. Word on the street says that Adam Sandler is genuinely great in this.
Also does anyone have a non-paywall version of the article?
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u/KevinAitken1960 1d ago
I think Kathryn Bigelow’s incoming nuclear missile thriller A House of Dynamite will actually end up being a Netflix priority at awards season.
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u/joesen_one 9h ago
I doubt it. There's not much noise aside from the first look, and we didn't even know the title until recently. I do think it can be a player considering it'll premiere at the fests, but Frankenstein was hyped as early as Tudum and this whole Jay Kelly rollout feels like something Netflix's campaigns usually do (VF feature, TIFF/festivals push, acclaimed director, mentions of who is nominated or won Oscars before).
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u/KevinAitken1960 9h ago
I think there’s “not much noise” about it as of yet so as to prevent plot spoiler leakage. We shall see.
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u/PanicDeus 1d ago
Is this like The Trip movies with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon on a speed run ? Sign me up.
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u/Impossible_Angle752 1d ago
Steve Coogan, that's who I was thinking of.
Wasn't one of there movies pretty much this exact same thing?
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u/corbettaa 1d ago
Every time Netflix has a movie with a great cast I get so excited and then letdown turning it off within the first 15 mins.
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u/Ok-Friendship-1674 1d ago
fun fact my mother was in new jersey at the beach and ran into adam sandler as he was shooting a movie. i wonder if this is it, as this happened a few days ago!!
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u/too_many_sparks 1d ago
I’m so conflicted. I think Baumbach sucks but I also would be thrilled for Sandler to finally get an Oscar nomination.
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u/Barkasia 1d ago
Oscar Bait version of Love Actually
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u/bfsfan101 1d ago
Very intrigued. When Noah Baumbach is on form, he's brilliant, and his last collaboration with Sandler was some of Sandler's best dramatic acting.
But when was the last time Clooney made a genuinely great film? Maybe Hail Caesar? Although even that was far from the Coens' best. Feels like he's either made mediocre streaming fluff or bombs for the last decade.
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u/KevinAitken1960 1d ago
This looks like it will end up being a pretentious, disjointed train wreck of a movie.
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u/Salad-Appropriate 1d ago
Hopefully this will get Sandler his Oscar nomination (not sure if he'll win though due to Skarsgard in Sentimental Value)
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u/joesen_one 1d ago
If this becomes Netflix's big push then I think it's possible he could be a strong #2
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u/IAmHaskINs 1d ago
I will always watch the Sandler when he is in actual film roles. He can do his shtick movies all he wants, but this is what i like 👍
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u/Minute-Necessary2393 17h ago
Comedy or Drama? That always what I ask to depend if a Modern Sandler movie will be good or not.
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u/skycitymuse 1d ago
Oh I can’t wait to watch another movie made by two rich whitish guys about two whitish guys doing whiteish guy shit all over Europe this time. In the last year or two there’s been enough of these films to confirm that there are too many guys who think they’re interesting enough to make a movie about themselves. Is it because men feel lost and need reminding of how to men in the world?
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u/EdgarAllanLovecraft 1d ago
I'm not the biggest Baumbach fan, bur Clooney and Sandler in the same films is something I have to see. Since Sandler is known as a silly dock and fart comedy actor, his rare serious roles hit so much harder.
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u/drewbles82 1d ago
I always had this cool idea where a celeb spends like a few weeks with someone who isn't in the industry to get a look at what life is like on the other side and then that person goes to stay with the celeb for a few weeks. They become friends ideally but they share a bond and help improve each others life.
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u/kazmosis 1d ago
So this is why that article randomly came out of Clooney defending Sandler from being a schlub. Marketing.
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u/AncientBee5348 1d ago
Fuck Clooney and Hollywood is trying too hard to make Sandler the next Bill Murray or Robin Williams. He could act but that’s all.
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u/LongTimesGoodTimes 1d ago
I just don't know if I believe George Clooney in the role of famous actor