Saturday Night

109 min | 31 Oct 2024

Strong crude humour and coarse language

11:30pm October 11th, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians & writers changed television forever. Find out what happened behind the scenes on SNLs first broadcast.

At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television – and culture – forever. Directed by Jason Reitman, written by Gil Kenan & Reitman and told in real time, Saturday Night is based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. Full of humor, chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t, we count down the minutes until we hear those famous words…

Director
Jason Reitman
Cast
J.K Simmons, Dylan O'Brien, Matthew Rhys, Willem Dafoe, Cory Michael Smith, Lamorne Morris, Finn Wolfhard, Ella Hunt, Nicholas Braun, Rachel Sennott, Tommy Dewey, Jon Batiste, Cooper Hoffman, Gabriel LaBelle, Kaia Gerber, Andrew Barth Feldman, Emily Fairn, Matt Wood, Kim Matula, Naomi McPherson
Genre
Biography, Comedy, Drama
Rating
MA (Strong crude humour and coarse language)
Release Date
31 October 2024
Runtime
109 min