First Poster for 'Loves Company' - Starring Rachel Dratch & Jack Plotnick - After a series of misfortunes, a washed-up television game show host is rescued from a car accident in the Everglades swamp by his biggest (and only living) fan Antoinette (Rachel Dratch).

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I kinda love the fact that they have acknowledged that this owes heavily to misery by titling it ‘Loves Company’

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u/RyghtHandMan 1d ago

Yeah in my head I said "oh just like miser- ohhhhhhhh"

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u/PornFilterRefugee 1d ago

Me too haha. I was like ok so a Misery knock off then got the title

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u/Boomersgang 1d ago

Same!

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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 1d ago

Also the sledgehammer next to the bed lol.

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u/HighlyEvolvedSloth 1d ago

Ha, I missed that at first. Good catch...

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u/AlienArtFirm 1d ago

Same. I was too distracted by the loose ropes laying on him. So much slack!

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u/MichelleEllyn 1d ago

Oh no 😅

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u/Tiny_Rick85 1d ago

And his rope on his legs.

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u/OdepiusNecks 1d ago

Fingers crossed for a Kathy Bates cameo.

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u/Popular_Research8915 1d ago

The plucky widowed sheriff a couple months out from retirement who saves him, screw a cameo

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u/JustisForAll 1d ago

As a Backwoods squirrel saleswoman?

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u/Garbage_Man_9 6h ago

You

Should

Have

Bought a

Squirrel

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u/Wonderful_Kick_855 1d ago

Oh for sure.

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u/KlooKloo 18h ago

as long as she's playing Matlock

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u/DoctorKangaroo 1d ago

I'm guessing they'll take a Tucker and Dale approach to the story and Dratch's character is completely harmless but just misunderstood

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u/PornFilterRefugee 1d ago

I think it’s either that or that the Plotnick character ends up really loving the attention from Dratch and she can’t get rid of him lol

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u/mcbexx 1d ago

The tagline "Don't meet your idols" supports this approach.

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u/976chip 22h ago

The implication from the trailer is that he realizes he can get publicity from being kidnapped and she can't get rid of him.

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u/DoctorKangaroo 1d ago

Dang, that would be funny as hell

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u/NDP2 22h ago

Couple that with the fact that Plotnick's attempt to regain his fame through the kidnapping will probably backfire because nobody knows or cares that he's missing, a plot twist that originated in O. Henry's The Ransom of Red Chief and was used in the movie Ruthless People.

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u/cakesofthepatty414 9h ago

You can have it.

If you want it.

It MIGHT take the rest of your life.

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u/Gilles_of_Augustine 1d ago

I really hope this is what it is.

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u/floatablepie 9h ago

Like the Simpsons when Patty and Selma kidnap MacGyver.

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u/Jeptic 1d ago

Feeling that interpretation. Those ropes aren't tying anything - including the room together

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u/Silly-Elderberry-411 1d ago

Or...matlock crossover

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u/WideHuckleberry1 1d ago

This is the dumbest I've felt in a long time because I thought "that's just Misery" and didn't make the connection.

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u/FaerieStories 1d ago

I wonder if it has Nicked the Plot, if you catch my drift.

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u/Wonderful_Kick_855 1d ago

Omg didn’t even notice that.

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u/althawk8357 1d ago

There's also the sledgehammer in the poster. I hope this is super meta.

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u/Jenzintera24 20h ago

But the tagline, I swear they put a lot more effort into it in the 80s/90s.

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u/Internal-Plantain-56 1d ago

We could start a company….

And make misery…

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u/sully9614 1d ago

Misery-inspired story starring Rachel Dratch is all I needed to hear

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u/Jerk182 1d ago

This! Misery with a comedic twist.

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u/powerlesshero111 1d ago

Already did it on SNL with the Church Lady Misery Sketch.

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u/sdmichael 1d ago

Well isn't that special?

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u/MountainMuffin1980 1d ago

Misery Loves Company

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u/CorgisAreAwesome9000 59m ago

Always stoked when John Oliver’s TV wife is in more movies ❤️.

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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 1d ago

After a series of misfortunes, washed-up television "icon," Blake de Troy (Jack Plotnick) -- best known for his appearances on the long-off-the-air gameshow The Hollywood Surprise -- is rescued from a car accident by his biggest (and only living) fan Antoinette Funk (Rachel Dratch). Bedridden in the Everglades swamps, Blake believes that he's been kidnapped by the sweet-natured but slightly deranged Antoinette. Desperate for a career boost, Blake soon realizes that maybe a kidnapping scandal is just the shameless publicity he's been looking for.

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u/ThingCalledLight 1d ago

I love that his name contains “of Troy.”

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u/irritableOwl3 20h ago

Antoinette Funk!

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u/cityfireguy 1d ago

Always rooting for Dratch

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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ 1d ago

wished she popped up in 30 Rock more as various characters. I know she was originally Jenna Maroney before the network wanted a recast. While Jane Krakowski is fucking perfect in that role, I do feel for Dratch on missing out

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u/aarkarr 1d ago

She was in every episode of season 1, which was a fun little gimmick. I think any more than that would've felt like a lot.

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u/RomulanTreachery 1d ago

I believe that was because she had a contract for X number of episodes for the first season, and they had to honour it so she just played someone new in every episode

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u/dblan9 1d ago

RUNT!!!

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u/nineball22 12h ago

She is so fucking funny, can’t wait to see this

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u/BaroneRaybert 1d ago

Even got the sledge hammer on the poster

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u/Mahdahrah 1d ago

which is upside down, right? like wouldn't it be top heavy and fall over. but I get that for the sake of the poster, we need to see the hammery part

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u/BaroneRaybert 1d ago

Yes, I feel like it would slide against the wall and fall

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u/Mahdahrah 1d ago

All right. so this movie is science fiction

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u/TheGhostofWoodyAllen 1d ago

Or fantasy!

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u/JelliedHam 1d ago

Presumably for the hobbling. Or maybe cobbling. Perhaps they have something very large to put together.

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u/Kidspud 1d ago

Let Rachel Dratch cook

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u/Delicious_Tea3999 1d ago

Jack Plotnik is super underrated as an actor and comedian. Add Rachel Dratch and I’m excited for this one!

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u/Best_Reply2947 1d ago

SHE PULLED HIM OUT OF THE COCKADOODEE CAR!

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u/Whole-Lychee7517 21h ago

RACHEL IN A LEADING ROLE?!? HECK YEAH!!!

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u/ronshasta 1d ago

So a spoof on Misery?

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u/mrbrambles 1d ago

Yes, explicitly so

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u/Gojirahawk 22h ago

Gonna guess by the tag line.. it starts out like Misery.. but she discovers the guy is actually a huge asshole, ends up hating him, and get’s stuck in this situation her making

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u/skinnyminnesota 1d ago

I have all the time in the world for Rachel Dratch.

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u/Bangkok_Dangeresque 1d ago

White Snake Moan

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u/5cactiplz 1d ago

Mhmmm, love me some Dratch.

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u/eliz1bef 12h ago

"Misery" loves company! Get it! Like Stephen King's Misery where the author's Biggest Fan
takes care" of him.

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u/AlmightyLoaf54 1d ago

Misery if it was a comedy!

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u/Joe_Mama 1d ago

It wasn't? That explains all the weird looks I got in the theater.

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u/RonnieDaBear 1d ago

I love Rachel, I'll be watching

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u/Dondarian 1d ago

So Debbie Downer: The Movie

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u/IamRachelAspen 1d ago

Yes, you likely won’t hear about a guy with a costume on, probably under the early stages of heatstroke.

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u/Dondarian 1d ago

Whump whuuummmmppp

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u/thirtyseven1337 1d ago

You know, now that you mention it, the actress in the poster kinda looks like her! 😉

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u/creamy-buscemi 1d ago

Tryna tell me that isn’t Stanley Tucci in a wig

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u/Unlikely_Side9732 1d ago

Is he from Girls will be Girls?

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u/cryptamine 23h ago

It's the number 1 killer of domestic cats!

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u/vangaloid 22h ago

Soooooo Misery?. . . Oh. . .I get it now

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u/icarus2847 1d ago

Rachel Dratch. I thought she died. She’s been MIA for like ever.

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u/abcbri 1d ago

Nah, she pops up on stuff all the time. She was on Broadway as the Narrator in Rocky Horror until she left just a month or so ago.

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 1d ago

I saw her in that! She was fantastic. She had some great zingers in response to the audience call outs, too. She's got the kind of stage presence where you can just tell comedy is effortless to her. At one point she was in a spinny chair just spinning in it randomly during her narration and it was somehow hilarious.

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u/abcbri 6h ago

She is so funny. She popped up as Debbie Downer in the Tina and Fey show they did when touring

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u/Garbage_Man_9 6h ago

She was just doing but parts in the VMAs like two weeks ago lol

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u/irritableOwl3 20h ago

I'm always saying we need more Rachel Dratch, she's great in everything

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u/LucifersPromoter 8h ago

She's great as everything too. Loved her rotating roles in 30 Rock.

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u/FuLL_of_LiFE 1d ago

Rumor is she's been in the Everglades for some time

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u/TheGhostofWoodyAllen 1d ago

She is currently in some commercials.

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u/SealedRoute 21h ago

I adore her. So funny.

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u/Commercial_Tip4624 10h ago

She’s the reason Amy Poehler’s Good Hang immediately became a streaming sensation.

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u/THEdoomslayer94 9h ago

That would be simply cause only haven’t seen her in stuff where as she’s literally still been working

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u/TitShark 1d ago

She’s been in plenty of tv commercials

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u/uppers36 10h ago

she’s always been there… hiding in plain sight

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u/knudude 1d ago

They better have a scene where they are in a Hot Tub as "Lovers". Ha ha ha. This looks great!

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u/charliefoxtrot9 1d ago

oh that's good pun game!

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u/ApeInTheShell 1d ago

I genuinely thought it was one of the chuckle brothers

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u/BroadwayBakery 20h ago

Hell yeah, sounds like a campy blast

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u/Saiclique 17h ago

OH. I get it just now

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u/Gestaltarskiten 10h ago

Loco - smart graphics design

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u/NOUGHRICE 1d ago

Hence the title...

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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 1d ago

...that's very obviously the point?

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u/etherseaminus 1d ago

If the soundtrack isn't all pulled from The Mountain Goats "Tallahassee" album what are we even doing here.

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u/LuinAelin 1d ago

Something familiar about this. Not sure, I'll be in misery trying to guess

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u/ComfortableSearch704 20h ago

If Misery had been a comedy…

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u/blue_sidd 1d ago

Unfortunately plotnick is a raging racist zionist and deserves no attention.

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u/linniex 1d ago

So…..Misery but funny?

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u/ImaginationDoctor 1d ago

Oh yeah I just got the joke. So. Will it be Misery but a comedy?

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u/FairLawnBoy 1d ago

So, a rip off of Misery that is named "Loves Company"; there is a famous phrase: "Misery Loves Company". Not even trying to hide it.

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u/CainCarving 1d ago

Ah yes, a parody of a 40 year old novel starring a washed up SNL actor.

They really captured the zeitgeist with this one.

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u/True-Rutabaga-4400 1d ago

Never heard of those two actors and also never read a less interesting plot summary tbh.

Poster First Poster for 'Loves Company' - Starring Rachel Dratch & Jack Plotnick - After a series of misfortunes, a washed-up television game show host is rescued from a car accident in the Everglades swamp by his biggest (and only living) fan Antoinette (Rachel Dratch).

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