TB to 2016 and 2017 Red Carpet

The Oscars is not only about movies, screenplays and directors. Let's make a little #TB at the 2016 and 2017 Red Carpets. Here we go ladies !

The Commuter

The Commuter (2018) is an action thriller directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by Byron Willinger, starring Liam Neeson. The plot follows a man who is unwittingly recruited into a murder conspiracy after meeting a mysterious woman while on his daily train commute.

I'm not going to tell you any further details about the story because I have found many spoilers on the net already. 

Did you enjoy this movie?

I enjoyed the special effects but the plot was quite ridiculous. Who can a woman manipulate lives of people she does not even know? And for what purpuse?

Liam Neeson as a detective was entertaining.

Move rating: 1.5/5 stars 

Phantom Tread

Happy Valentine’s day to all our readers! Ciak Movies comes out with a special review: today, guess what, we are talking about L-O-V-E. Platonic love, carnal love, true love, who cares? Love is love, people. And one thing is for sure: we all love Cinema. So movie lovers, take a seat, and perpared yourself to read a special review. Never heard about Phantom Thread?

Phantom Tread (2017) written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Daniel Day-Lewis (Reynolds), Lesley Manville (his sister Cyril) and Vicky Krieps (Alma).

Set in 50s London, the movie presents an a-typical life , the one of the legendarian (and odd) couturier Reynolds Woodcock who passes his time drawing mezmerizing dresses for some royal highness around the globe, and the rude, illeterate, stranger young waitress Alma. The more Reynold lives according to schemes and schedules, the more Alma is rebel, unpolite and noughty. The two fell in love, a strange but strong love that lead the two to marriage, even if Reynolds, after a short period of time, get tired of his girlfriends and seems incapable to love anything (if we exclude his sister Cyril), besides his dresses. On the other hand, Alma is exaggerately gelous and reveals her mental instability to both the spectator and her beloved couturier. Isn’t love blind? Or crazy? Or inexplicable?

The movie gained a great number of nominatons: 2 at the Golden Globes and 6 at the 90th Academy Awards-Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Day-Lewis (his final role before retirement), and Supporting Actress for Manville.

• Daniel Day Lewis is worth watching, delivering one of the most sincere representation of the season, even though the strange behavour of the man is quite annoying. All the world and the camera seems to be round him . In fact, even Alma and Cyril who are two strong female characters belonging to different social levels and age, but are united by Reynolds presence. Phantom tread is a one man show.
• In some moments of the movie you will feel ill, just like the main character. The tone is quite pale and nothing occurs, besides the couturier being poisoned a few times. LOL. 
• Alma being the perfect muse. At first she is shy, then, suddenly turned out to be a role model. 
• Lesley Manville and her few facial expressions. Cyril you are a rock of impassivity. 

Movie rating: 3/5.

The Disaster Artist

The Disaster Artist (2017)is a biographical comedy-drama film produced and directed by James Franco. The Disaster Artist is inspired by both the realization and the movie The Room (2003), written, starred and directed by Tommy Wiseau and considered one of the worst movies in cinema’s history.

Although the movie was not nominated at the 90th Academy Awards, James Franco won the award for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy at the latest Golden Globes, whereas the film was also nominated for Best Motion Picture in the Musical or Comedy category.

The Disaster Movie, starring James and Dave Franco, follows the adventures of Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero, two aspiring-actors who move from San Francisco to La in order to stars with capital S. The two of them started to modeling around and to make they personals photo-books, while they applied as candidates for some upcoming movies. Tommy is the one who is more likely to be rejected, because of his strange personality and his foreign accent, whereas Greg, the handsome, could have had some fame, if it wasn’t for Tommy’s friendship.

One day Tommy decided to write a (disastrous) script and to pay for the production, buying all the equipments and selecting the technicians, in order to ciak his own movie.

The movie is funny and worth watching with the contested Franco who delivers an outstanding performance, remarking his 360° acting skills. James Franco who was recently accused of being a rapist, had failed a great opportunity to be nominated: he would have been one of the strongest contenders for the statuette. Bravo to the youngest Dave Franco too.

Tommy Wiseau personality: I wasn’t aware of the existence of this man, but The Disaster Movie made me wonder how the original The Room is, so I guess I will watch it. Do you?

Movie rating: 4/5 stars.

One of the best comedies of the year.  

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad (2008-2013, 5 seasons) is a neo-western-crime drama created and produced by Vince Gilligan, starring Bryan Craston as professor Walter White and Aaron Paul as the junker Jesse Pinkman, with Bob Odenkirk as lawyer Saul Goodman and Giancarlo Esposito as drog boss Gus Frig. Breaking Bad is considered one of the greatest tv series of all time. an American neo-western crime drama television series. BB is widely considered one of the best tv series of all times as he won a great number of awards, including 2 Golden Globes, 16 Primetime Emmy and 2 Critic’s Choice Awards.

In Albuquerque, New Mexico, the chimical genious Walter White, also professor in statal high school and father of a family, discovered he had cancer. With a son, Walter Jr who is disabled and a wife (Skyler), to provide for, Mr White decided to think how to make money in the short slice of lifetime he had remained. Mr White was indirectly introduced to the obscure drugs world thanks to his brother in law Hank Schreder- Skyler’s sister’s Marie husband, who was a DEA officer. Mr White with his former student Jesse Pinkman, a depraved young junkard, started to cook meth’s cristals, using a chemically perfect formula. Mr White’s product created many illusions between addicted and started to be widely required as the two become business partners in both cooking and selling met. This unexpected turn point in Mr White’s life brought him in contact with other drug dealers and mafia-cartels: torrents of money arrived in his pockets but also a great deal of violence, deaths and truble. Mr White is constantly risking to break apart with his family and relatives but he isn’t able to quit the only one job which pays well his magical skills. Jesse, on his hand, constantly manages to “survive himself”, and his friendship with Mr White opens new job opportunity as well as a promissed new type of lifestyle.

I’m currently watching this tv series - I’m through season 4, so don’t spoil it for me- but I’ve already feel the urge to write something about it.

• Breaking Bad combines perfectly drama and irony, affection and violence, being both hilarious and serious. The story is told by two different perspectives, Mr White’s and Jesse’s. Along the show, technical adjustments of the camera are made in a few points, expecially when Jesse is high. It is incredible how not even a single episode is banale or boring, you could keep watching BB forever.
• Both Craston and Paul are fantastic, they define perfectly the characters of Mr White and Jesse. Mr White’s facial expressions are formidable, such as Jesse’s rude tone of voice or his rapper walking style.
• The environment: Albuquerque is seen for good and for worst, from the desert-countryside paths to the city center and suburbs. Realistic and inclusive.
• Normal life is portrayed by Walter Jr whilst the bronx misadventures are more linked to Jesse’s experience. But Mr White and Jesse are simply to faces of the same reality, which cannot exist split apart one from the other.
• Secondary characters such as Skyler, Hank or Marie, are not so secondary: they have a strong personality and are active throughout the series. Their contribution change the curse of the story, which is quiet unique in this kind of crime-drama.
• An unspoken drug world. BB shows not only the production-distribution of drugs but also the effects on addicts, with its subsequent rehab or deaths.
• Mr White seems the perfect prototype of the intellectual or Mr Gus presents himself as a super-honest business man -with his loved “Los Pollos Hermanos” hamburger house- is, at the end of the day, the king of the meth-market. How can apparences be faked so well?

Tv series rating: 5/5 stars. A must see. 

The Post

The Post (2017) is a political thriller directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham and Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee, Bob Odenkirk (as Ben) and Sarah Paulson. A great cast, a great story. The Post is running for 2 statuettes at the 90th Academy Awards - Best Picture and Best Actress for Meryl, and it is already included in top 10 movies of the year list.

But is The Post as interesting as the critic claims?

Well, firstly let’s introduce the story: in the ‘70s the journal The Washington Post decided to post the sensitive and top secret docs of the controversial Pentagon Papers – regarding Vietnam’s war, after the Ny Times was put out the games because of an injunction that restrained reporter Neil Sheehan to continue publishing its investigation. It is the Post’s reporter Ben Bagdikian who produced a dangerous super-scoop in order to salve the reputation of the paper.

• This movie advocates the right to tell a story and the “constitutional” free press. Untrustworthy government and political uncertainties are the basis of this 70s crisis but are problems that clearly deal with nowadays administration.
• If I had to choose a great actress in order to portray the 70s’ only woman in the press room, which one I would choose? Meryl, you rock the house. Lucid performance and once again, nominated.
• The movie itself in spite the message and the theme covered, The Post is all but entertaining and funny, as the official critic liked to write black on white. Other journalistically/ inquire movies have been made recently, as Academy Award Winner in 2015 “Spotlight” or “Truth”, which were, in my opinion not only more “moving” but also more interesting in the storytelling. But Vietnam is Vietnam, right?
• Boring, boring and… BORING. Great cast, great director, good story. That’s not enough to make a good movie ! The scenes are too long, the narration is as slow as Dante climbing Purgatory’s hill. 
  The only one which outstanded, in my opinion was, Bob Odenkirk. My reaction when I first recognize him after years and years not seeing his face (remember lawyer Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad series?) was “oh god, how old is he now?”. That was the only moment when I’ve felt alive during this movie.

Movie rating: 1.5/5 stars- One point for Meryl, an half for the story.

  

Get Out

Get Out (2017) is a comic/ horror written and directed by Jordan Peele, starring Daniel Kaluuya (Chris) and Allison Williams (his girlfriend Rose). The movie earned 2 noms at the Golden Globes and is running for 4 statuettes at the 90th Academy Awards- Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actor for Kaluuya.

The movie tells the misadventures of Chris, a black young photographer who agrees to meet his girlfriend’s parents who live a beautiful colonial house in the countyside. Mom and Dad turn out to be the worst kind of racist psychos cunducting illegal experiments on Rose’s love interests.

• Get Out is the first movie I have seen in this award season. And I have enjoyed it because it deals with current topics, such as racism still is in nowadays’ society and illegal scientifical experiments on human beings. But yet, Get Out makes you think&laugh in a comical entertaining way. But it scares you at the same time. How come that illegal experiments are made without no-one notice it? Or worse: a) no one seems to really care, b) where are the authorities?
• Daniel Kaluuya gives his face to a complex character. Chris is an ambicious photographer who lives a common, decent life. When things get dangerous, he does not suspect on his beloved girlfriend, does he? But then Chris manages to wake up and manages to get out this horrific reality. A black guy who is smart, fast and “good” in a subdle racial movie where the blacks are not only restrained to play the part of the victims. Chris’ role in the movie jumps of the opposition of colors, making us reflect more on the cruel experiments. We don’t tolerate them because they are injustly applied on black people or we don’t tolerate them at all? I mean, even if applied to asian people/european/caucasian or on the environment and the animals? Kaluuya’s acting portrays all this. Intense interpretation.
• Rose’s family. I mean, wow. How is it even possible that a revival colonial house exists in 21th c? The parallelism between the 2 “worlds”, contemporary and colonial is very interesting.
• Classical horror effects, music and… tools.

Movie rating: 5/5 stars.

In my opinion, one of the most complete movies of the season, even if its early screen opening seems to cut Get out out of the awards game. Be scared of outsiders.  

The Darkest Hour

The Darkest Hour (2017) British war drama film directed by Joe Wright and written by Anthony McCarten, starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill and Ben Mendelsohn as Bernie, the king.

The Darkest Hour is running for Best picture in the 90th Oscars and Gary Oldman was nominated for best actor in a leading role, after winning the Golden Globe Award.

The movie follows the early days of Churchill as Prime Minister: due to the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign, Churchill carries a poor reputation but seems the only man who can solve a bi-partisan crisis. Churchill is a old annoying druker but he knows how to speak properly: thanks to Churchill’s radio interventions and his committment to the cause, he managed to high the medium english moral about a war that seems lost. After Belgium surrenderd to the SS troops and France was about to be invaded completely, Churchill leads the evacuation of more than 300000 troops in Dunkirk’s beach, thanks to the fundamental help of 4000 brave english soldiers left in Calais.

• This is the second movie of this season that deals with the evacuation of Dunkirk- together with “Dunkirk” movie- but it does so in a different perspective. Talking less about action and more about political organization, the Darkest Hour is a beautiful insight in both an historiacal momentum and a character, Winston Churchill, that, more than others, represents the real English pride.
• The other politicians & the king: what a precise description. All the scenes seems as a doc- movie ! Without being boring for a second !
• Gary Oldman as Churchill is one of the best performances of the year. He seems as if he were is alter-ego. Phenomenal in portraying Churchill’s behavour and moves. The nomination was truly deserved and in my opinon, Gary Oldan may be one of the strongest contendents.

I’ve enjoyed so much this movie. It won’t win the Academy award, but hope dies last. As Churchull said.

Movie rating: 5/5 stars.

OSCAR NOMINATIONS 2018

OSCAR NOMINEES BEST PICTURE

• Call Me by Your Name
  Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges and Marco Morabito, Producers

• Darkest Hour
  Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski, Producers

• Dunkirk
  Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
• Get Out
  Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr. and Jordan Peele, Producers
• Lady Bird
  Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Evelyn O'Neill, Producers

• Phantom Thread
  JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison and Daniel Lupi, Producers
• The Post
  Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers

• The Shape of Water
  Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale, Producers
• Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
  Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Timothée Chalamet- Call Me by Your Name

Daniel Day-Lewis- Phantom Thread

Daniel Kaluuya-Get Out

Gary Oldman-Darkest Hour

Denzel Washington-Roman J. Israel, Esq.

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Sally Hawkins-The Shape of Water

Frances McDormand-Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Margot Robbie-I, Tonya

Saoirse Ronan-Lady Bird

Meryl Streep-The Post

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Willem Dafoe-The Florida Project

Woody Harrelson-Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Richard Jenkins-The Shape of Water

Christopher Plummer-All the Money in the World

Sam Rockwell-Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Mary J. Blige-Mudbound

Allison Janney-I, Tonya

Lesley Manville- Phantom Thread

Laurie Metcalf-Lady Bird

Octavia Spencer-The Shape of Water

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

The Boss Baby

Tom McGrath and Ramsey Naito

The Breadwinner

Nora Twomey and Anthony Leo

Coco

Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson

Ferdinand

Carlos Saldanha

Loving Vincent

Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Blade Runner 2049

Roger A. Deakins

Darkest Hour

Bruno Delbonnel

Dunkirk

Hoyte van Hoytema

Mudbound

Rachel Morrison

The Shape of Water

Dan Laustsen

COSTUME DESIGN

Beauty and the Beast

Jacqueline Durran

Darkest Hour

Jacqueline Durran

Phantom Thread

Mark Bridges

The Shape of Water

Luis Sequeira

Victoria & Abdul

Consolata Boyle

DIRECTING

Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan

Get Out

Jordan Peele

Lady Bird

Greta Gerwig

Phantom Thread

Paul Thomas Anderson

The Shape of Water

Guillermo del Toro

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Steve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman

Faces Places

Agnès Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda

Icarus

Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan

Last Men in Aleppo

Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen

Strong Island

Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

Edith+Eddie

Laura Checkoway and Thomas Lee Wright

Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405

Frank Stiefel

Heroin(e)

Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon

Knife Skills

Thomas Lennon

Traffic Stop

Kate Davis and David Heilbroner

FILM EDITING

Baby Driver

Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos

Dunkirk

Lee Smith

I, Tonya

Tatiana S. Riegel

The Shape of Water

Sidney Wolinsky

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Jon Gregory

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

A Fantastic Woman

Chile

The Insult

Lebanon

Loveless

Russia

On Body and Soul

Hungary

The Square

Sweden

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Darkest Hour

Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick

Victoria & Abdul

Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard

Wonder

Arjen Tuiten

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

Dunkirk

Hans Zimmer

Phantom Thread

Jonny Greenwood

The Shape of Water

Alexandre Desplat

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

John Williams

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Carter Burwell

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

"Mighty River" from Mudbound

Music and Lyric by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson

"Mystery Of Love" from Call Me by Your Name

Music and Lyric by Sufjan Stevens

"Remember Me" from Coco

Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

"Stand Up For Something" from Marshall

Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Lonnie R. Lynn and Diane Warren

"This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman

Music and Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Beauty and the Beast

Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer

Blade Runner 2049

Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola

Darkest Hour

Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer

Dunkirk

Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis

The Shape of Water

Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

Dear Basketball

Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant

Garden Party

Victor Caire and Gabriel Grapperon

Lou

Dave Mullins and Dana Murray

Negative Space

Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata

Revolting Rhymes

Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

DeKalb Elementary

Reed Van Dyk

The Eleven O'Clock

Derin Seale and Josh Lawson

My Nephew Emmett

Kevin Wilson, Jr.

The Silent Child

Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton

Watu Wote/All of Us

Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen

SOUND EDITING

Baby Driver

Julian Slater

Blade Runner 2049

Mark Mangini and Theo Green

Dunkirk

Richard King and Alex Gibson

The Shape of Water

Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce

SOUND MIXING

Baby Driver

Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis

Blade Runner 2049

Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth

Dunkirk

Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo

The Shape of Water

Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson

VISUAL EFFECTS

Blade Runner 2049

John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick

Kong: Skull Island

Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould

War for the Planet of the Apes

Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

Call Me by Your Name

Screenplay by James Ivory

Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber

Logan

Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold

Molly's Game

Written for the screen by Aaron Sorkin

Mudbound

Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

The Big Sick

Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani

Get Out

Written by Jordan Peele

Lady Bird

Written by Greta Gerwig

The Shape of Water

Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Written by Martin McDonagh

The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water (2017) is a fantasy-drama directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor. The film stars Sally Hawkins (Elena Esposito), Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer.

Set in Baltimore in 1962, the plot follows a mute custodian at a high-security government laboratory who meet and fall in love with a captured humanoid-amphibian creature.

• Sally Hawkins is brilliant. She literally acts without uttering a word, in such a meaningful way. The main character portrays how every human being needs love in their life, to be loved and, eventually, love in return, no matter if the beloved is not another human. Love wins.
  
  
• The creature. Is it a sensitive mermaid or a bloody amphibin? This dualism, how the creature behaves in a sweet and human way with Elena is in extreme contrast with its brutal side, shown during the medical experiments. And why are amphibians eating eggs all the time? This character does not convince me.
  
  
• Colonel Richard Strickland or the man who first captures the creature in a river, than can’t wait to vivisect it. But why? If the creature is needed to gap the Russians in technology, why on earth this urge to get rid of it? Besides, the ugly use of violence puts a cross on this character.
  
  
• The artist, gay, close friend Giles. He helps and supports Emilia in a clumsy way. Funny or upsetting? Don’t know.

The movie does not convince me, in spide of the good reviews. Lacks in the plot and too little fantasy to be called a fantasy movie.

Movie rating: 2/5 stars

Let me know what you think.

Lady Bird

Lady Bird (2017) is a comedy-drama movie directed by Greta Gerwing, starring Saoirse Roman (Lady Bird/Christine) , Laurie Mecalf (mother), Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet.

Lady Bird and her best friend Julie attend a Catholic high School in Sacramento. Lady Bird has a dream: becoming someone, while entering, like her brother, an important university. During the movie, she tested what love can mean, having breaf relationship with a class-mate and an alternative musician. During the movie, Lady Bird fights against her mother, who tries to coordinate the whealth of the family, after her husband had lost the job. “Lady Bird” is a movie of self discovery, along the path of becoming an adult.

Soirse Ronan was nominated at the 75^a Golden Globes Awards for best actress in a comedy feature.

• An interesting and entertaing movie! It shows how complex can be the growing up process. It shows exactly how a young adult is elfish, interested only in her own business… I mean, she doesn’t even noticed her father suffered about depression ! Or, let’s admit it, Lady Bird is in love more of the idea of love than paying attention of love itself… she doesn’t realize her boyfriend was gay!
• Soirse Ronan is thrilling ! Funny, clumsy, chicky… a pure pleasure for the eyes. The irish 24 yo is perfect in Lady Bird’s shoes. And what a transformation! Hairstyle and clothes come right from the 2000s. Authentic.
• Lady Bird’s mother: a real women. We spectator are wondering when occurs the gap in becoming an adult between head in clouds’ Lady Bird and her mother? Concerned about material issues as money, dealing with duble shifts, her husband problems and… well, a daughter that sees nothing over her nose.
• Oh dear 2000s. Love the school parties and relationship between class-mates. Are you the coolest? “If you are still hanging out with Kyle, we can catch up”
• Sacramento- Nyc: or suburbs vs metropolitan city. Nyc seems the perfect city for a head full of dreams. Or not?

Movie rating: 3.5 / 5.

Entertaing but a bit predictable.

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