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“Girl Most Likely” to Make You Laugh
Jul 27th
Posted by Dan Culberson in Hotshots Movie Reviews
“To Make You Laugh”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
Girl Most Likely is a witty, intelligent comedy about a girl who at the beginning of the movie is most likely to fail at everything she hoped for.
Including suicide.
Imogene Duncan is played by Kristen Wiig, and when we meet her she is desperately trying to get in touch with her boyfriend, Peter, whom she is meeting at a gathering in New York City.
When Imogene is asked if she is even married, her response of “Mostly, basically” is an indication of what problems she might be having in her relationship with Peter, even though they are living together.
However, when Peter tells Imogene that he is moving out because he doesn’t think they “go together,” Imogene’s life starts going downhill fast.
Imogene is fired from her job at a magazine where she describes a play in five sentences or less to make people want to see it.
You see, Imogene was once a promising playwright herself, and even though she even won a prize for her work, she never became successful.
So, Imogene does what anyone with a flair for drama would do. She writes a compelling note, leaves a message for Peter to come see her right away, and tries to commit suicide.
That doesn’t work, either. Imogene’s best friend, Dara, comes to her apartment instead, and Imogene is saved from dying by the wrong person.
And Imogene’s life continues to go downhill. She is put in care of her mother, Zelda, played by Annette Bening, who lives in Ocean City, New Jersey, and has a gambling problem.
At one point, Zelda tells Imogene, “If I say I’m sorry, I’m worried you’d
just get all mad at me … for ruining your life.”
In addition, Zelda has rented Imogene’s bedroom to Lee, a man who makes his living by singing in a tribute band, and Zelda also has a boyfriend living with them, played by Matt Dillon, whose name is either George or The Bousche, or perhaps both.
Imogene’s younger brother, Ralph, is also living in the house, and Ralph is obsessed with crabs, even building a human shell that he wears outside, whenever he goes outside, for protection.
Imogene also learns that her father is alive, whom she had been told died when she was nine.
Girl Most Likely will most likely make you laugh.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
Girl Most Likely – Movie Trailer
Jul 22nd
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Movie Trailers
Kristen Wiig stars as Imogene, once a promising young New York playwright whose promise has fizzled, thanks to a crisis of confidence. Heavily in denial about being dumped by her society boyfriend, Imogene uses her skill for drama to stage an elaborate fake suicide as an appeal for his sympathy. But her attempt backfires when she’s put into the custody of Zelda, her estranged gambling addict mother (Annette Bening), and must return home with her to the Jersey shore. Desperate to get back to her Manhattan circle of so- called friends, Imogene must finally deal with her family, including her unique brother (Christopher Fitzgerald), Zelda’s new boyfriend The Bousche (Matt Dillon), plus a cute young lodger (Darren Criss),who together help Imogene sort out her place in the world.
“The Invention of Lying” And That’s the Truth
Oct 8th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Hotshots Movie Reviews
And That’s the Truth
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
THE INVENTION OF LYING is a delightful little film that examines how life would be boring if everybody told the truth all the time and how life would be so much more interesting if we just bent the truth in small ways or in large.
Yes, it is a romantic comedy with social overtones.
Ricky Gervais plays Mark, and he is going to have the distinction of telling the world’s first lie when he is put in a situation in which he realizes that he could improve his circumstances if he just said something that didn’t reflect how things actually were.
However, before we get to that momentous event, we watch Mark go out on a first date with Anna, played by Jennifer Garner.
Only the audience is surprised when Anna greets Mark at the door and says, “Hi. You’re early. I was just masturbating.”
Now, you might think that the movie starts off slow, but it gets better as it goes along, especially when you pay attention to the background and all the signs and advertising. Truth in advertising might be refreshing, but it also sure would be boring.
Well, one day Mark needs to clean out his bank account of $300, but when he gets to the bank, the teller says that the computer isn’t working and asks him how much money he has in his account.
Mark has a brilliant thought, and he tells her a number other than 300, and she gives him that amount while apologizing that the computer is down.
Mark is able to turn his life around just by saying things that aren’t really, well, “true,” and he convinces Anna to go out on a second date with him.
But the biggest change occurs when Mark visits his mother in the “Sad Place Where Homeless Old People Come to Die,” which we would call an “Old Folks Home.”
His mother is concerned about dying and her life turning into black nothingness, and so Mark comforts her by making up a story that she is instead going to go to a wonderful place of happiness that is watched over by a “Man in the Sky.”
The story spreads, other people learn about it, and Mark’s life changes completely.
THE INVENTION OF LYING is funny, will ruffle some feathers, and that’s the truth.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”