Movies We Watch

Ok, Paul Rudd is on my fives. He is adorable and funny. There is not a Paul Rudd film I wouldn’t watch and probably very few I haven’t. So this film was a must.

This film was never released in the theatres. One film festival and straight to DVD. It wasn’t a bad film, but it certainly was not theatre quality and we know there is a lot of crap out there in the theatres. If I lived within half an hour of one, I would probably have plenty of proof on this site of that.

The basic premise is that an actor comes in to audition for the role of the geek in a show produced by Michelle Pfeiffer’s character, a 40+ divorced woman writing a show about high school kids. The actor (Rudd) is 29. They fall for each other, resist each other and then enjoy the age difference.

Rudd is allowed to be as goofy as he wants to be, dancing wildly in a club, geeking up the show to get not only a return visit for his role, but eventually his own show. He is charmingly goofy. Unfortunately, they keep Pfeiffer repressed and suspicious barely allowing her to enjoy the relationship until the end.

And the daughter does fun rewrites of pop tunes.

Worth a watch? Depends on your mood and interest in Paul Rudd.

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This movie follows a mother who falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.