Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Richard Linklater
Writer: Alex Conn
Cast: Dave Chappelle, Olivia Thirlby, Kenan Thompson, Maia Mitchell, Halston Sage
Budget: $18,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $19,129,446
Foreign Box Office: $11,676,305
Total Profit: $4,799,036
Reaction: This one worked at the box office due to Dave Chappelle's large fan base and the relatively low budget - at least that's what the marketing department is touting.
"It's certainly not Linklater's best but works well enough as a mid-life crisis movie about a celebrity with addiction issues. While the supporting characters feel rather shallow and unmemorable, Chappelle rises above the weaker aspects of the script to really shine in a rare dramatic leading role." - Kate Yarbrough, The Guardian
"Not since Punchline has there been such an unfunny film depicting the stand-up comedy world. Dave Chappelle does what he can with the title role, but that still amounts to vamping and having sex scenes with actresses young enough to be his daughter." - Dave Manning, Ridgefield Press
"Everyone aside from Dave Chappelle is severely miscast in Dan Star from director Richard Linklater and writer Alex Conn. While it was nice that Chappelle got such a prominent big screen role, the sequences from him doing drugs and having sex become very repetitive very quickly." - Michael Wilmington, Rolling Stone
Rated R for sexual content/nudity, drug use and strong language throughout
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