BEFORE: I have to work today at the NY Children's Film Festival, and then when I get home first priority is going to be dinner and then second will be watching Tournament of Champions on Food Network, so chances are I will NOT get to see the Oscars live tonight. Maybe I'll have time to fast-forward through them before bedtime, but most likely not. So I don't know how I'll be able to avoid spoilers, probably not - it's doubtful I can make it to Monday night without hearing about the big winners. BUT I haven't seen the majority of the nominated films, only "Dune: Part Two" and "Inside Out 2", really. Something tells me I'm going to regret not dropping "The Wild Robot" into my Catherine O'Hara chain in January, but we'll see.
Damon Wayans Jr. carries over from "Love, Guaranteed". Now here's the line-up for Monday, 3/3, Day 31 of TCM's "31 Days of Oscar" - final day!
Best Visual / Special Effects Winners and Nominees:
6:00 am "A Stolen Life" (1946)
8:00 am "Tom Thumb" (1958)
9:45 am "7 Faces of Dr. Lao" (1964)
11:30 am "The Spirit of St. Louis" (1957)
2:00 pm "The Time Machine" (1960)
3:45 pm "Mighty Joe Young" (1949)
5:30 pm "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968)
Oscar Worthy Heiresses:
8:00 pm "Pride of the Yankees" (1942)
10:15 pm "Norma Rae" (1979)
12:15 am "Blossoms in the Dust" (1941)
2:15 am "Sister Kenny" (1946)
4:15 am "The Story of Louis Pasteur" (1936)
I was at 148 seen out of 344, and I've seen another 3 out of Monday's 12: "The Spirit of St. Louis", "The Time Machine" and "2001: A Space Odyssey". I have a copy of "Norma Rae" but it never seems like the right time to watch it - like I've tried to land it on Labor Day, and it never works out. Maybe I should have included it in this month's Sally Field chain, but it didn't feel like a very romance-based film. SO now 151 seen out of 356 takes me to a final score of 42.4% - almost a half a percentage point ahead of last year's score.
THE PLOT: A struggling writer meets an enigmatic woman who enters his life at the right time..
AFTER: There is a twist here, something that helps this film stand out from all the other "two people meet each other" movies. Sure, this seems really simple at first, Bart, a male writer is down on his luck, he's forced to move into his friend's garage, he has to take a job writing item descriptions for a medical supply catalog. Then he meets this cute girl who wakes him up after he falls asleep after drinking alcohol in a movie theater screening "Being There". She seems really into him, and she invites him out for more drinks, and this turns into spending days together, and that turns into spending nights together, everything seems great except for the fact that the woman is so weird - she has no cell phone, she has no job and she walks around with big amounts of money and pays for everything with cash. Like, who does that?
I can't even really talk about the twist, because it's a spoiler, even me saying that there is a twist is a bit too much, because now you'll know going in to expect one. It might be on the level of the one from "Fight Club" or the one from "The Sixth Sense", only it's neither of those. It could have been either one of those, like the woman could have been imaginary or she could have been a ghost. But she's not either of those, at least I don't think she is - no, it's something else. When she finally reveals where she came from, why she doesn't have a job and why she doesn't have a phone or a credit card, sure, the answer is quite unbelievable. Bart can't believe it, he doesn't want to believe it, but SHE believes it, however she could be lying or she could be crazy. All answers are possible.
That's all I can really say, but hey, props for trying something different here, I sure wasn't expecting it, or I might have scheduled this one for another time if I had only known, which I didn't. It's a paradox, I know - but you only know what you know when you know it. Things are always very hard to predict, even with movies that follow formulas - so it's even worse when a movie goes way off the reservation and pulls something you never saw coming. But this one is quite clever, and the more I think about it, the cleverer it gets. I'm not going to say any more, I'm going to cut this short because I've got to get to Tournament of Champions tonight and then speed-watch the Oscars. I wish I had a long weekend so I could catch up on everything!
Directed by Steve Basilone
Also starring Finn Wittrock (last seen in "The Normal Heart"), Zoë Chao (last seen in "Your Place or Mine"), Casey Wilson (last seen in "Always Be My Maybe"), Wendi McLendon-Covey (last heard in "Elemental"), Jim Rash (last seen in "Fly Me to the Moon"), Carter Morgan, Steve Basilone, Jennifer Irwin (last seen in "Superstar"), Jess Jacobs, Ellison Randell, Dylan Wittrock, Deanna Barillari, Andrew Secunda (last seen in "Our Idiot Brother"), Haley Rawson (last seen in "Bridge of Spies"), Cyrina Fiallo.
RATING: 6 out of 10 photo booth photos
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