Nationwide Releases
Drillbit Taylor
Directed: Steven Brill
Starring: Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Danny McBride, Josh Peck, Troy Gentile
Trailer
Synopsis: Three kids getting bullied at school hire a bodyguard to help them out.
My Take: Cashing in on the Judd Apatow name with something that doesn’t look as funny as Knocked Up or Superbad, but I did giggle a bit at some of the trailer.
RT Score: 24%
RT Consensus: Owen Wilson’s charms can’t save Drillbit Taylor, an unfunny, overly familiar bullied-teen comedy.
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Irina Palm
Directed: Sam Garbarski
Starring: Marianne Faithfull, Miki Manojlovic, Kevin Bishop
A middle-age woman takes a job at a sex club in order to pay for her grandson’s experimental surgery that might save his life. Seen at the Portland International Film Festival.
What could be depressing is a hoot. It isn’t salacious, even the parts in the sex club, but hilarious watching a middle-age “frump” (what she calls herself) try to come to terms the situation she has found herself in.
It starts a little bit on the depressing side when we are introduced to Maggie’s son and wife (who can’t seem to stand Maggie) and their son Ollie who seems to be dying from some unnamed disease. His various treatments to cure him have all failed and they have run out of people to borrow from. There is an experimental surgery that might work, but they have to go to Australia to have it done. The surgery will be free, but they need to pay for their way there, hospital fills and hotel. It also has to be soon since Ollie will be too weak to travel in six weeks.
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