“ Starring Jerry as Himself ,” is probably what you think it is: the story of one man’s life, with him taking the lead role.
You won’t be long into this 1:15 film — which won the Grand Jury, Audience and Best Actor awards at the filmmaker-driven Slamdance Film Festival in February (a qualifier for the Oscars, by the way) — before you think you know where this “spy thriller” is going. And you’d be right.
But, “Starring Jerry as Himself,” which does in fact star Orlando retiree and Taiwanese immigrant Jerry Hsu, as well as his ex-wife and their three sons, as themselves, is much more than its most obvious endgame…