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After his movie and television career has run dry, Bruce Madsen is forced to go back on the road playing one dingy comedy club after another, spending endless nights in budget hotel rooms and always flying coach. Amidst trying to revitalize his career, rekindle his love life and put his daughter through college, Bruce knows one thing for sure - he must get off the road.
24 August 1964, Hopedale, Massachusetts, USA
27 January 1960, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
24 September 1967, Bellflower, California, USA
4 September 1961, Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA
27 May 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 May 1967, New York City, New York, USA
4 February 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
14 February 1980, Fall River, Massachusetts, USA
24 October 1970, Alhambra, Illinois, USA
May1968, Rye, New York, USA
29 November 1955, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
7 September 1969, Manhattan, New York, USA
13 January 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 September 1986, Rochester, New York, USA
25 July 1965, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
8 February 1964, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
11 September 1979, Queens, New York, USA
21 March 1973, London, England, UK
8 April 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
June 25, 2015
A lot rings painfully true about showbiz in Road Hard, a bittersweet look at a middle-aged comic dealing with a stalled career.March 16, 2015
Comedian Adam Carolla mines his own career experiences to amusing effect in his semi-autobiographical dark comedy about an embittered stand-up comic.March 06, 2015
Carolla, who co-wrote and co-directed the picture with Kevin Henchis, has a way of making his remarkably stiff screen presence endearing. He plays Bruce with gentle self-mockery and a touch of genuine pathos.April 10, 2015
It's about looking at life as an accumulation of disappointments and having the will to work for something better.March 06, 2015
This feature directing debut for Adam Carolla and frequent writing/producing collaborator Kevin Hench is an amiable, nicely assembled semi-autobiographical fiction that will please the former's fans.March 06, 2015
Road Hard has enough spiky moments to make it worth a watch.March 06, 2015
The man who made girls jump on trampolines delivers better rom-coms than the rest of Hollywood.March 12, 2015
...even when Carolla is on-stage and performing with some type of emotional subtext, this definitely ain't Lenny.April 09, 2015
Here's a comedy about a stand-up comedian trying to get out of the comedy business. And here's my advice to him: Don't quit your day job. You're good at it, and it serves the movie.March 05, 2015
The type of saccharine, predictable movie Carolla has spent his entire career making fun of.April 09, 2015
In the final reel, the tone suddenly shifts from laughs to a deliberately quirky romance that feels forced and, worse, doesn't work.March 05, 2015
The truth is, I found "Road Hard" to be a low-key gem, a consistently funny albeit conventional story about a guy who's almost always the funniest person in the room, and is almost always his own worst enemy.