Skip to content

Featured Popular Top Rated Upcoming Now Playing

Featured Popular Top Rated Airing Today On The Air

Action Adventure Animation Comedy Crime Documentary Drama Family Fantasy History Horror Music Mystery Romance Science Fiction TV Movie Thriller War

Search movies and TV series

Search movies and TV series

Featured Popular Top Rated Upcoming Now Playing

Featured Popular Top Rated Airing Today On The Air

Action Adventure Animation Comedy Crime Documentary Drama Family Fantasy History Horror Music Mystery Romance Science Fiction TV Movie Thriller War

Every movie and series, one place to find it.

Search movies and TV series

Loading content…

Discover where to watch movies and TV series online. Browse trending titles, streaming availability, ratings, trailers, cast and full episode guides — all in one place.

Movies

Featured
Popular
Top Rated
Upcoming
Now Playing

TV Series

Featured
Popular
Top Rated
Airing Today
On The Air

Discover

Trending
Free to Watch
Browse Genres
Search

© 2026 Watch Free Online Movies. All rights reserved.

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. Watch Free Online Movies does not host or stream any media — it links to where titles are legally available.

Loading title details…

A Futile and Stupid Gesture poster

A Futile and Stupid Gesture(2018)

RJanuary 24, 20181h 41m

64%User score 64 percent

User Score

376 votes

Being the King of Comedy is no joke.

Overview

In a life full of triumph and failure, "National Lampoon" co-founder Doug Kenney built a comedy empire, molding pop culture in the 1970s.

Director: David Wain
Writers: John Aboud, Michael Colton

Top Billed Cast

Will Forte
Doug Kenney
Domhnall Gleeson
Henry Beard
Martin Mull
Modern Doug
Neil Casey
Brian McConnachie

More Like This

Recommendations based on this film

63%User score 63 percent

Family Weekend

2013 · Comedy · Drama

64%User score 64 percent

The Beanie Bubble

2023 · Comedy · Drama

61%User score 61 percent

About Alex

2014 · Comedy · Drama

58%User score 58 percent

CQ

2001 · Comedy · Drama

63%User score 63 percent

House of D

2004 · Comedy · Drama

63%User score 63 percent

Somewhere in Queens

2023 · Comedy · Drama

60%User score 60 percent

Playing God

2021 · Comedy · Drama

63%User score 63 percent

Hooking Up

2020 · Comedy · Drama

62%User score 62 percent

The Joneses

2010 · Comedy · Drama

61%User score 61 percent

The Middle Man

2021 · Comedy · Drama

72%User score 72 percent

Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years

2025 · Comedy

58%User score 58 percent

Small Apartments

2012 · Comedy · Crime

59%User score 59 percent

All About Nina

2018 · Comedy · Drama

63%User score 63 percent

Almost Friends

2017 · Drama · Comedy

61%User score 61 percent

Landline

2017 · Comedy · Drama

67%User score 67 percent

In the Soup

1992 · Comedy · Drama

62%User score 62 percent

The Most Hated Woman in America

2017 · Crime · Drama

63%User score 63 percent

Class Act

1992 · Comedy · Drama

73%User score 73 percent

Eddie Murphy Raw

1987 · Comedy

58%User score 58 percent

Pretty Persuasion

2005 · Comedy

A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018) | Watch Free Online Movies

Jon Daly

Bill Murray

Nelson Franklin

P.J. O'Rourke

John Gemberling

John Belushi

Rick Glassman

Harold Ramis

Seth Green

Christopher Guest

Harry Groener

Harry Kenney

Max Greenfield

Chris Miller

Camille Guaty

Alex Garcia-Mata

Ed Helms

Tom Snyder

Thomas Lennon

Michael O'Donoghue

Joe Lo Truglio

Brad

Matt Lucas

Tony Hendra

Natasha Lyonne

Anne Beatts

Joel McHale

Chevy Chase

Annette O'Toole

Stephanie Kenney

Emmy Rossum

Kathryn Walker

Media

Where to Watch

US

Stream

Stream on Netflix
Stream on Netflix Standard with Ads

All watch options for A Futile and Stupid Gesture

Streaming availability data provided by JustWatch via TMDB.

Facts

Status: Released
Original title: A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Original language: English
Budget: $10,000,000
Production: Abominable Pictures, Principato-Young Entertainment

Official site IMDb

Keywords

biography