An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, it was a rather tricky story and Kristen Wiig almost managed to make it land but not completely, I’m afraid. The main issue, in my opinion, was that there were just too many characters involved. Seriously, what was the point of Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character? She is such a fine actress but she was barely used and therefore completely wasted here. Eventually, you had so many people orbiting around the main character including her parents, her best friend, her ex-husband who’s now married with a guy, 2 lovers, some student and half a dozen of her co-workers at the TV station. As a result, instead of focusing on Alice Klieg herself, on her TV-show or on her relationship with any of the people I mentioned before, the movie constantly jumps from one character to the other which was never really satisfying. For example, Linda Cardellini’s character was completely randomly introduced and her whole relationship with Alice was limited to the fact that Alice apparently thought that she might be fat. Of course, it went slightly deeper than that but, to be honest, not much more. It’s like her meetings with her psychiatrist, it could have been interesting but, instead these therapy sessions just popped up randomly with the psychiatrist basically saying every time the same thing to her. And, yet the damned thing was still not bad at all though. Indeed, even though the whole thing was obviously weird, it never became too quirky and Kristen Wiig managed to make her character quite believable and still charismatic which is quite impressive since she was playing a really difficult woman with some massive borderline disorder. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it was still a decent watch and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.