Jay Kelly

WBZ's Jordan Rich takes a look at this new film from Academy Award nominee Noah Baumbach.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Now Streaming with Jordan j Kelly.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
So hands up, look at you. You're the American Dream,
the last of the old movies. I'm down here, you're
up there, You're down here, you're in here. We did
this together.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
J Kelly is a big Hollywood film released by Netflix,
with a bevy of a listers running out the themes
of fame and regret and the phoniness of a movie
stars life, one that is so different on screen than off.
George Clooney is the title character j Kelly, who finds
that has carefully built life over the last thirty five
years in front of the camera is starting to wilt
a bit with age, and when he examines his true

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relations with family and friends, he comes to the realization
that he's missed out on a whole lot. It's a
theme that many movies have dealt with, this one does
it particularly well thanks to a fine performance by Adam
Sandler as the star's loyal but often maligned manager. When
a man's memories are nothing but movies, he realizes he's
missed out on quite a lot. J Kelly now on
Netflix and That's Now Streaming with Jordan WZ. Boston's news radio,