Genre:
Comedy
Directed
by: Anne Fletcher
Starring:
Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogan
Running
time: 95 minutes
I
was looking for something light to watch with my wife on Saturday and The Guilt
Trip was chosen. This 2012 comedy tells the story of Andy Brewster, an inventor
trying to sell a new cleaning product. As he embarks on a sales trip, he
decides to invite his overbearing widowed mother, with the secret mission of
reuniting her with an old flame along the way.
Seth
Rogan and Barbra Streisand show some very good chemistry on screen. The diva’s
character is over-the-top and a little aggravating at the beginning, but she
grows on you like she does on her son. It is interesting to see Rogan in
another role than that of stoner loser. Here, he plays a very smart but uptight
man who needs to learn how to relate to others if he wants to be successful in
his job.
At
the beginning of the movie, the humor fell kind of flat for me, but, as we went
along, the cuteness and the humanity of the whole thing got to me. There has
been many father and son and mother and daughter movies, but the mother and son
relationship is an interesting perspective also. There were some funny parts,
though no real laugh-out-loud moments. Overall, The Guilt Trip is a good light
and sweet little movie that will make you want to call or hug your mother when
it’s over for not being as overbearing as Barbra’s character…unless she is.
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