Country: United States
Language: English

About the film:

World Premiere, 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.

At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television – and culture – forever. Saturday Night is based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. Full of humor, chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t, we count down the minutes in real time until we hear those famous words…

“a love letter to the millions of global fans who have religiously tuned in [to Saturday Night Live] to decompress and get their giggle on. “

—Carla Renata, TheWrap

About the filmmaker:

Jason Reitman is an Academy Award-nominated writer and director. He made his directorial debut with the critically successful satire Thank You for Smoking (2005), for which he won the 2007 Independent Film Spirit Award for Best Screenplay, Best Film at the 2007 Munich Film Festival, and the NBR Award for Best Directorial Debut. His follow-up film, Juno (2007), earned four Academy Award nominations in 2008 and won writer Diablo Cody the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay; Reitman teamed up with Cody once again 11 years later for the award-winning Tully (2018). In 2021 Reitman directed Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which has been praised as one of the best installments to the Ghostbusters franchise since the original film. His latest film, Saturday Night (2024), premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.

MAJOR SUPPORT
Ohio Arts Council
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Campus Partners
National Endowment for the Arts

WITH HELP FROM
G&J Pepsi
WOSU Public Media