“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.”