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By Adder Lovelace

Updated 19 July 2019

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Artist	David Shankbone
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Desc	Will Forte at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of A Good Old Fashioned Orgy.
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2018 film directed by David Wain

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

Released	24 January 2018 (5 years, 1 months ago)

Director	David Wain
Duration	101 minutes
Genre	comedy-drama and biographical film
Country of origin	United States of America
Screenwriter	John Aboud and Michael Colton
Producer	Jonathan Stern and Ted Sarandos

About A Futile and Stupid Gesture

A Futile and Stupid Gesture is an American biographical comedy-drama film, based on Josh Karp's book of the same name, directed by David Wain, and written by Michael Colton and John Aboud. The film stars Will Forte as comedy writer Douglas Kenney, during the rise and fall of National Lampoon. The film had its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on January 24, and was released on Netflix on January 26, 2018.