Synopsis
Saturday Night (2024) is a comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Jason Reitman. The film covers exactly ninety minutes — the chaotic stretch backstage at NBC on October 11, 1975, before the first-ever broadcast of Saturday Night Live at 11:30 p.m.
Gabriel LaBelle plays a young Lorne Michaels trying to keep his combustible team from imploding before air. Willem Dafoe, J.K. Simmons, Dylan O'Brien, and a large ensemble take on the real people who were in that building: writers, performers, network executives, and crew members who had no idea they were about to change television. Sets aren't finished. Sketches keep getting cut. Everyone has a different agenda.
Reitman shoots it like a thriller — handheld, relentless, room to room — rather than a reverent origin story. Released in 2024, the film earned strong notices for its ensemble work and its refusal to smooth out the mess. Watch Saturday Night (2024) online on iFILM.
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