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“Enough Said” Title Says It Best
Oct 25th
“Title Says It Best”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
Enough Said is a romantic comedy that is the very definition of quirky, which is a synonym of idiosyncratic, which means eccentric or peculiar of constitution or temperament and also an individualizing characteristic or quality.
In other words, it is hard to define.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as Eva, a divorced masseuse who carries her massage table in the trunk of her car to her clients’ homes, and we see three of those clients throughout the movie as a running gag, or should that be a driving gag, or should that be a massaging gag.
Eva has been divorced 10 years, and she has a teenage daughter, Ellen, who is going away to college in the fall.
Eva’s best friend is Sarah, played by Toni Collette, and at the beginning of the movie Eva goes to a party with Sarah and her husband, at which Eva says to Sarah, “There’s not one man at this party that I’m attracted to.”
However, Eva does meet a man at the party, Albert, played by James Gandolfini, who has been divorced for four years and who also has a teenage daughter who is going off to college in the fall.
Eva also meets a woman at the party, Marianne, who is a poet and who becomes a new client for Eva.
Well, Albert likes Eva enough that he calls her and asks her out to dinner, and Eva likes Albert enough that she accepts.
Now, maybe this is how first dates are conducted in California, but at the end of the date when Albert drives Eva home, he doesn’t even get out of the car and walk her up to her front door, shaking hands with her in the front seat.
At any rate, Eva tells Sarah that she thought it was a very good date, and now she finds Albert kind of sexy, enough so that they continue dating and doing more than shaking hands.
Much more.
Meanwhile, Eva’s new client, Marianne, enjoys being with Eva so much that she wants to become friends with Eva, saying that she doesn’t have many close friends whom she can talk to, which mostly consists of bad-mouthing her ex-husband.
Well, you can see where this going, can’t you, especially when you learn that Marianne also has a daughter going away to college.
Enough Said.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
Enough Said – Movie Trailer
Oct 20th
A divorced and single parent, Eva (Julia Louis Dreyfus) spends her days enjoying work as a masseuse but dreading her daughter’s impending departure for college. She meets Albert (James Gandolfini) – a sweet, funny and like-minded man also facing an empty nest. As their romance quickly blossoms, Eva befriends Marianne (Catherine Keener), her new massage client. Marianne is a beautiful poet who seems “almost perfect” except for one prominent quality: she rags on her ex-husband way too much. Suddenly, Eva finds herself doubting her own relationship with Albert as she learns the truth about Marianne’s Ex. ENOUGH SAID is a sharp, insightful comedy that humorously explores the mess that often comes with getting involved again.
“A Serious Man” A Serious Film
Nov 5th
A Serious Film
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
A SERIOUS MAN is the latest film by Joel and Ethan Coen, who write their films together, direct them together, edit them together, and finally share their awards together, which this film is likely to win more for them.
Ostensibly it is a comedy, because it contains many laughs even into the closing credits, but it also contains serious themes that can cause the audience to think about it long after the last laugh has burst forth.
After all, any film that mentions quantum physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and Schroedinger’s cat, as well as has its basis in the Book of Job from the Bible can’t be all comedy.
The story takes place in 1967 in a suburb of Minneapolis, and it is about the life and hardships of Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a local college.
Everything seems to be going just fine in Larry’s life, until one day from out of the blue his wife, Judith, tells Larry that she has been seeing one of Larry’s friends, Sy Ableman, and she says, “In short, I think it’s about time that we started talking about a divorce.”
Larry is stunned, especially about the part that Judith would be romantically involved with Sy Ableman, who even comes over to the house to talk to Larry in his unctuous manner.
Then everything that Larry thought was one way turns out to be another.
Larry is asked to move out of his own home and to stay at the Jolly Roger Motel, which he does.
He is being considered for tenure at the college where he teaches, and he keeps getting regular updates from the head of the tenure committee, but whereas the updates were favorable at first, eventually they become worse and worse.
One of Larry’s students appears to have offered a bribe of substantial money in exchange for a better grade in the class.
Larry’s teenage son and teenage daughter are constantly complaining to Larry about what he considers to be trivial matters.
Larry seeks the counsel of one local rabbi after another, but gets no help whatsoever.
And to top it all off, Larry keeps getting called by a representative of the Columbia Record Club about payment for records Larry never ordered or received.
A SERIOUS MAN is a serious film disguised as a comedy.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
