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Stand-up comics as portrayed in movies are an icky bunch. They're unreliable, undependable, and, when their jokes fall flat, really vile to be around. Whether this is an accurate depiction is a matter perhaps best left to members of the Friars Club. In any case, it nicely sums up Jean Dwight (Brenda Blethyn, adding another domineering needy mother role to her resume), the gale force who animates the awkwardly fused comedy-drama Introducing the Dwights.
Jean, a one-time rising stand-up star, is trying to resuscitate the career she unwittingly kissed goodbye 25 years ago when she left her native England to follow her then-husband John (Frankie J. Holden) to Australia.
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