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LORNE

Starring: Lorne Michaels
Director: Morgan Neville

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How do you tell the story of a relatively private man who doesn’t want to divulge much? You get other people to talk about him. That’s what director Morgan Neville uses to fill the gaps in the Lorne Michaels story. This is why Lorne is a fairly surface-level effort that teeters between a documentary on the man and a documentary on Saturday Night Live. Most of the interview subjects are entertaining (everyone you’d want to hear from takes part) and it's clear many share a father-like relationship with the man, like an unproblematic Vince McMahon. But there’s not a ton of knowledge to be gained.

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Lorne Michaels is clearly a figure who wanted nothing less than having a documentary made about him, and Lorne suffers by taking that concept down a too-generic path. To be fair, director Morgan Neville at least tries to work with that, and the results can be charming with its plethora of stories and interviews about Michaels. But in this pursuit to make the best out of a limited canvas, Neville fails to pick a concrete lane, waffling between a focus on Saturday Night Live’s ambiguity or its technical aspects. In the end, Lorne winds up a watchable but uneventful documentary.

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