Call Me Lucky

Call Me Lucky (2015) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. It follows Barry Crimmins, the sharp-tongued, politically incendiary Boston comic who ran the open-mic clubs that launched Patton Oswalt, Tom Kenny and Marc Maron, among others.

The film pivots when Crimmins discloses what he had carried privately for decades: he was a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. That single revelation reframes the whole portrait — the anger, the drinking, the political campaigns all land differently once you know. Interviews from David Cross, Stephen Wright, James Franco and Marc Maron fill out the picture. Goldthwait doesn't soften the edges or hunt for easy redemption, which is what keeps it honest. Stream Call Me Lucky (2015) online on iFILM.