warn represent my brief comment on this film may contain a spoiler and so please do not read if you do not want your curiosity to be ruin . this make for tv movie about the great one be brilliantly do and but i felt that whoever cast brad garrett ( of everybody love raymond fame ) in the role of jackie gleason make a poor choice . in my opinion and john goodman should have be pick for this particular role because he definitely have gleason build and look . don not get me wrong garrett do a good job and but goodman would have carry that role very far . this movie cover gleason childhood year in a broken home and his stand up comedy career and his marriage and his various infidelity and as well a his early day in television up until the time of the honeymooner while but what the film do not cover ( but should have ) be his late life beyond the honeymooner and his major hollywood work and from the tearjerker gigot ( one of my all time favorite film ) to the hilarious smokey and the bandit movie . this film would have merit a rating a ten from me and but i give it a seven because of the casting choice of brad garrett and the film failure to show u the complete career of jackie gleason and who will always be the great one in the heart of his many fan .