Genre:
Comedy / Drama
Directed
by: Joe Swanberg
Starring:
Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Joe Swanberg
Running
time: 88 minutes
Jenny is a girl in her twenties whose
personal life is a mess. She decides to move to Chicago to live with her older
brother Jeff, a filmmaker living a calm existence with his writer wife and his
infant son. The ever-partying younger sibling will stir things up and her
brother’s family life will never be quite the same again.
As it is usually the case with Joe Swanberg
films, the dialogue in this one is completely improvised. Anna Kendrick is
really good as Jenny; she makes for a convincing immature party girl. It was
also a nice touch to see Melanie Lynskey again. I really dug her as Rose in Two
and a Half Men, and I don’t see enough of her on the small and big screen.
Overall, this film was somewhat of a letdown
for me. The premise was interesting, the acting was good; it just all seemed to
fall flat in the end. Maybe some of the impact was lost in the improvisational nature
of the dialogue, but I was left with a feeling of a lot of promise that led to
a dead end.
Rating:
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