Friday, November 30, 2012
WHO'S ON FIRST?
Today's film was a first time effort by Robbie Pickering
A middle aged woman discovers that her husband has been "cheating" on her for all their years together. The deal is that he is a born again and doesn't believe that sex should be for anything but procreation. She is barren. So he jerks off at a sperm bank to religious porn.
I know. I know. This sounds like some wild ass over the top comedy about the poor dumb evangelicals. But it is a premise that works when the husband, believing he is near death, asks the wife to go find his one success at insemination out there.
She goes to find the boy. Who turns out to be a man. A wild man who is on the lam.
Somehow this film absorbs all the nuttiness. I don't know how it does that. We believe it, we are all for the people involved to work it out. We are drawn into what turns out to be a love story of a kind.
The wife is played with great skill by the comic actress Rachael Harris and the young man is Matt O'Leary, a natural clown in wolf's clothing who reminds me very much of the young Red Skelton. I know. You are too young. You didn't see him. Great physical stuff. He too, is able to fold the daffiness into a sensitive and likable character. The one we love to hate.
Funny and on the target, the film is very well done. Rough for being done on the low down. Still, that is no excuse. It has been an award winner if not a distribution success.
I liked it. I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.
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