The film captures a live performance of a one-woman show of stand-up comedy, featuring actress and comedian Margaret Cho.
The primary focus of the material is on Cho's ascension into stardom and her struggles with weight, drug addiction and sexual promiscuity.
The movie was almost universally praised by critics, and it garnered favorable comparisons to the work of comedians like Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce.
Several times while watching the movie, which opens today at the Quad Cinema, I laughed until the tears were running down my face.
The concert film was released on DVD and VHS on October 9, 2001, by Winstar Home Video.