An average movie

It’s another movie I had almost forever on my queue (almost 10 years…) so I guess it was finally time to see the damned thing. Well, to be honest, I wish I could say it was worth the wait but it turned out to be pretty lame after all. I have to admit that I actually didn’t know it was based on a true story, in fact, G.J. Echternkamp based the whole thing on his own life. It went even further as Echternkamp already made a documentary about his parents and it seems to be much more interesting than this new ‘fictional’ version. I guess the main reason why I wanted to watch this movie in the first place was because I have a weak spot for Rene Russo and Oliver Platt and I don’t think that they were bad, it’s just that I never thought that their characters were either interesting or entertaining. In fact, in my opinion, the couple played by Johnny Simmons and Jane Levy was much more interesting. Indeed, I liked how they connected first without hooking up right away and it was one of the rare couples I have seen in a movie for which I understood why they were actually gravitating towards each other. Obviously, this couple was completely fictional (it was also rather weird how Echternkamp portrayed himself as some kind of irresistible stud) and they were not the point at all here, it was all about Frank and Cindy and their supposedly fascinating dysfunctional couple. I have to admit that the fact that my parents always argued non-stop for as long as I can remember made it pretty much impossible to me to find such a toxic relationship ‘funny’ or ‘endearing’. At some point, Echternkamp’s biological father argued that, since they had been together for 20 years, they must have been doing something right but I seriously disagree. If you argue all the time, you should definitely not be together, period, even if you think you can’t be on your own. Anyway, to conclude, I didn’t care much about the damned thing and I don’t think it is really worth a look. 

5/10