Joker
Director Todd Phillips “Joker” centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.
Cast
Joaquin Phoenix • Robert De Niro • Shea Whigham • Frances Conroy • Zazie Beetz • Bill Camp • Douglas Hodge • Josh Pais • Marc Maron
Director
Todd Phillips
Running Time
122 minutes