{"id":5122,"date":"2016-12-26T10:05:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T15:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=5122"},"modified":"2024-01-11T18:18:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T23:18:24","slug":"joan-rivers-a-piece-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=5122","title":{"rendered":"Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work-2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring Joan Rivers, Melissa Rivers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott’s Review #563<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reviewed December 26, 2016<\/p>\n

Grade: A<\/strong><\/p>\n

I found Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010) to be a great documentary.<\/p>\n

For fans of Joan Rivers, the film is a treat, but for people unfamiliar with her, it is an amazing journey into her personal life, and we see her at her most vulnerable.<\/p>\n

At the time of this documentary, she was a very busy seventy-seven-year-old entertainer. The film exceeds as it shows not only her stage persona, and quick wit, but a more intimate, personal side to the woman.<\/p>\n

According to Rivers, the documentary makers were allowed free reign of what made the final cut, with no approval from Rivers.<\/p>\n

Joan Rivers must be the hardest working, driven, seventy-seven-year-old alive. Not only is she the foul-mouthed, hysterical comedienne most know her as, but she also has an insecure, sensitive side that few see.<\/p>\n

Moments of this documentary are hysterical, others are heartbreaking.<\/p>\n

As she is mocked in a crappy club in the mid-west by a man offended by her jokes, Rivers lashes out at the man and later shows a sense of regret as she speaks to the camera.<\/p>\n

The documentary is set up as a year in the life of Joan Rivers mixed in with her forty-plus years in showbiz, how she got her start, breaks, etc. We experience the pain she felt when her husband committed suicide, forcing her to take almost any job as a way to pay her bills.<\/p>\n

This is a documentary that reveals much, much more than the public sees her as. It is an intimate portrayal of a courageous woman that few wholly see.<\/p>\n

I loved it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work-2010 Director Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg Starring Joan Rivers, Melissa Rivers Scott’s Review #563 Reviewed December 26, 2016 Grade: A I found Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010) to be a great documentary. For fans of Joan Rivers, the film is a treat, but for people unfamiliar with her, … Continue reading Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work-2010<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,3024,2380,46,3026,3027,3022,3025,1035,3023],"tags":[270,3030,2382,249,3032,3033,3028,3031,1045,3029],"class_list":["post-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-movie-reviews","category-bill-maher","category-brad-garrett","category-documentaries","category-don-rickles","category-garry-shandling","category-joan-rivers","category-kathy-griffin","category-lily-tomlin","category-melissa-rivers","tag-2010-movie-reviews","tag-bill-maher","tag-brad-garrett","tag-documentaries","tag-don-rickles","tag-garry-shandling","tag-joan-rivers","tag-kathy-griffin","tag-lily-tomlin","tag-melissa-rivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19777,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions\/19777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}