Review: I personally found this movie more shocking than funny! It's about young couple, Alex (Adam Scott) and Emily (Taylor Shilling), who move to Los Angeles with there young son, RJ, who starts playing with a little kid in the park near there house. The father of RJ's new found friend, Kurt (Jason Schwartzman), introduces himself to Alex and Emily and he invites them to his house for dinner as they didn't have any friends in the area and there kids enjoyed playing together. When they get to there lavish abode, they meet Kurt's wife, Charlotte (Judith Godreche) and they all hit it off straight away. After a couple of bottles of wine, they put the kids to bed and then they smoke some weed, which makes Alex and Emily quite giddy and they start to do things that are completely out of character, like skinny in there pool and talking about Alex's, somewhat, small *. As the night goes along, more strange things start to happen between the couples but there friendship, mysteriously becomes stronger and they all face there fears after spending just one night together. I did think that the script was a bit far fetched but the performances, especially from Jason Schwartzman, was quite good. The whole bum/flower pictures were a bit weird along with the small * concept and when they started to get down to business, I did feel a bit uncomfortable. It was obvious that Kurt & Charlotte wasn't an ordinary couple right from the beginning of the film so I was surprised that they stayed at the house after feeling the weird vibe in the air. Anyway, I did chuckle at a few of the scenes but the movie wasn't that great. On the plus side, it's quite short so it doesn't drag on forever but I still was expecting more from this film. Average!
Round-Up: We all know Taylor Schilling, 31, from the Orange is the New Black series but I doubt that people will remember her in Argo, Stay, the Lucky One or Dark Matter. Because of her commitments to the hit series, she hasn't had much success on the big screen and she seems to act the same in all of her roles. Jason Schwartzman, 35, doesn't take on that many roles but he has starred in some successful films like, Big Eyes, the Grand Budapest Hotel, Saving Mr. Banks, we're he put in a great performance, Moonrise Kingdom, Scott Pilgrim and the Darjeeling Limited. He was also great in Shopgirl and I Heart Huckabees, which is an under rated movie and he has come really far since his debut in Rushmore in 1998. I personally think that he does his best work when he teams up with Wes Anderson because his acting style really suits Andersons writing and direction. Anyway, this is the first major movie from director Patrick Brice who has only made a few shorts in his career. He wrote, directed and starred in a movie called Creep but I personally haven't heard anything about it before. I think that this movie went a bit too far in some of the scenes and the storyline wasn't that great but at such a low budget, the director didn't have that much to loose.
Budget: $200,000 Worldwide Gross: $1.1million
I recommend this movie to people who are into their comedy/mysteries starring Adam Scott, Taylor Schillng, Jason Schwartzman and Judith Godreche. 3/10
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