Baird’s observant and genial portrait includes many scenes where these master comics are performing, but the primary purpose doesn’t appear to be to convince you of their comic genius, but rather to display their ease with each other, the charge and excitement of a connection. (They are on a theater tour to raise money for a film comeback.) Like a married couple that stopped fighting long ago, their exchanges hint at buried resentments, muffled irritations and an abiding love. Portraying the final days of the remarkable partnership of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the greatest double act in the history of movies, the tightly focused narrative finds these comedians past their prime, not just in their career but also in their relationship. Replace flirtation and sex with pratfalls and comic repartee and “Stan & Ollie” is a heartstrings-yanking Hollywood romance.
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