Tig
2015 · Movie · 95 min · ★ 7.2 · 74% critics
This intimate documentary follows a comedian facing a serious illness just as a deeply personal stand-up set suddenly changes the direction of a career. It traces a moving period of hardship, creative momentum, and new love with honesty, humor, and resilience.
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Streaming on Netflix.
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Details
- Years
- 2015
- Release date
- 2015-04-23
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 74/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (98 votes)
About
You’ll likely connect with this if you like intimate, emotional documentaries that balance hardship with humor, especially in the vein of 5B or The Case Against 8; Not for you if you want a more detached or event-driven doc.
Pros: funny and moving; deeply personal story; hopeful, empathetic tone | Cons: loses momentum later; feels slight at times; short ambitions
Themes
- comedian
- breast cancer
- cancer
- death of mother
- lgbt
- woman director
- stand-up comedian
Cast & crew
Tig Notaro
as Self
Stephanie Allynne
as Self - Tig's Wife
Zach Galifianakis
as Self
Sarah Silverman
as Self
Bill Burr
as Self
Kyle Dunnigan
as Self
Directed by Ashley York, Kristina Goolsby