Top Five

Top Five is a comedy written and directed by comedian Chris Rock. The SNL alumni also stars alongside Rosario Dawson, Gabrielle Union, and a laundry list of Rock’s comedy comrades. The film premiered at TIFF this year where it triggered a bidding war between studios to secure its distribution rights. Paramount ended up paying $12.5-million – a TIFF record – to lock down the deal.

TOP FIVE tells the story of New York City comedian-turned-film star Andre Allen, whose unexpected encounter with a journalist (Rosario Dawson) forces him to confront the comedy career—and the past—that he’s left behind. Pulsing with the rhythm of his greatest stand-up, Chris Rock’s TOP FIVE takes things to the next level, reveling in the high and the low, and blending a star-studded comedic romp with an irresistible romance. TOP FIVE digs under the surface of show business, politics, rap, and the exigencies of being black and famous today—holding it all up to the light in the way only Chris Rock can. Mingling echoes of Woody Allen and Dick Gregory with the energy of Kanye West and Jay Z, TOP FIVE is an original and radically new kind of American movie.

“I wanted to make a movie that felt like my stand-up, you know,” Rock explains, “with that kind of edge that made people laugh, and made people uncomfortable, and was sweet, and edgy at the same time. I hadn’t felt I’d done that yet—in the movies.”

Top Five is rated 18A.

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