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64% Rotten Tomatoes Cinematography Andrei Bowden-Schwartz | 7.3/10 IMDb 66% Metacritic Initial release 22 January 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Directed by Maya ForbesWallace Wolodarsky Produced by Jack BlackStuart CornfeldMonica LevinsonPriyanka MattooDavid PermutShivani Rawat Written by Maya ForbesWallace Wolodarsky Based on The Man Who Would Be Polka Kingby Joshua Brown and John Mikulak Starring Jack BlackJenny SlateJason SchwartzmanJacki Weaver Producers Cast Similar The Man Who Would Be Polka, Fun Mom Dinner, Mudbound, The Big Sick, Marjorie Prime | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Polka King is an American comedy film directed and written by Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky. The film stars Jack Black, Jenny Slate, Jason Schwartzman, and Jacki Weaver. It premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2017.
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Jack black and jacki weaver on sex scene in the polka king
Cast
Production
The Polka King is based on the Joshua Brown and John Mikulak's documentary The Man Who Would Be Polka King, about the rise and fall of Jan Lewan, a Pennsylvania polka sensation who seduced his fans into investing in a Ponzi scheme.
Principal photography on the film began in mid-July 2016 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and later it also took place in Cranston.
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The Polka King Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA