A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)
Directed by David Wain
In a life full of triumph and failure, "National Lampoon" co-founder Doug Kenney built a comedy empire, molding pop culture in the 1970s.
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He’s enraged, too, by a screening of Airplane! in the same summer as his own 1980 comedy, Caddyshack .
And the bitterness at losing their pre-eminence, first to “Saturday Night Live,” which raided the Lampoon’s writing staff and radio players, and then “Airplane!,” which upped the comic ante for the pace of jokes, is palpable.
Doug Kenney (Will Forte, TV’s “The Last Man on Earth”) is a young man from a small town in Ohio, a strange sort whose parents Harry (Harry Groener, “A Cure for Wellness”) and Stephanie (Annette O’Toole, “Women Who Kill”) don’t understand him and can’t get over the passing of his older brother.