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Grade • A-

DVD • The documentary "Call Me Lucky" is part comic profile, part emotional crusade — a movie that will have a viewer alternately laughing and fuming.

Director Bobcat Goldthwait introduces the audience to his comic mentor, Barry Crimmins, who's one of the funniest topical comedians working, not to mention politically sharp and intensely anti-authoritarian.

The movie digs into Crimmins' roots, as the comic details how he was raped by a babysitter's boyfriend when he was 5 years old — a tragedy that has inspired Crimmins' crusades against child pornography and for adult victims of childhood abuse.

Goldthwait's portrait shows both Crimmins' fiercely funny side and the heartache and drive behind it.