Before he was a popular stand up comic and way before his hit FX series Louie, Louis C.K. directed a couple movies that nobody saw. He’s set to release his first very soon.
In 1998, Louis C.K. directed his first of two feature films. Before he released Pootie Tang, another little seen movie that happens to be streaming on Netflix, C.K. wrote and directed a movie called Tomorrow Night. It was shown at the Sundance film festival, but it was never released after that.
It’s certainly a shame that C.K. was never able to release Tomorrow Night as it took him a lot to make it. Jon Stewart, Denis Leary, Chris Rock and others all lent him $10,000 so that he was able to finish the film.
C.K. was on The Tonight Show for the final time under current host Jay Leno, and he talked about the fact that he will be releasing it on his website in February. It’ll cost $5.
C.K. mentions several times that it’s a “big, funny movie,” and while we can’t confirm the funny part yet (though it will be as it’s Louis C.K.), he certainly isn’t lying about the big part. The cast includes Steve Carell, Amy Poehler, Conan O’Brien, JB Smoove, Wanda Sykes and many more. We can’t wait to see it.
Luckily a trailer for the film does exist, and this gives a good look at just how weird the movie is.
Here’s the synopsis:
Tomorrow Night chronicles the loneliness of photo-shop owner Charles, an acerbic, repressed man with an unquenchable “taste” for ice cream. His energetic and overly cheerful postman Mel convinces him that what he really needs is womanly companionship. On the other side of town is Florence, a lonely old woman with a mean, vociferous husband. When Florence isn’t being tortured by her husband, she pines away for Billy, her son in the army who hasn’t written in twenty years and who makes Gomer Pyle look like Einstein. To top it off, the only friend Florence has is Tina, a sweet yet crude and scruffy young man who dresses in old-lady drag. Tina convinces Florence that maybe she needs a little extracurricular spice in her life. Enter Charles, who gets off on the thought of a clean and orderly household, and you have a match made in heaven. From there, things get even weirder.
Thanks, ScreenCrush.
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