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I feel like I will go crazy if I don’t tell someone about this movie, it absolutely rips. we love media on medium. it’s a group of actors in a musical, constantly moving between their dream theatre production and the production they actually can afford. maybe I just like this because I work in a theatre again and am constantly daydreaming about us having enough money to turn the heaters on. xoxo love this flick 👍
Jan 27, 2024
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brilliant. beautiful and funny and heartwrenching and silly and all around fantastic. the more i think about this movie the more i love it. tells an unconventional tale of self-confidence, self-sabotage, regret and jealousy, etc etc the ending was a bit silly but i can look past it lol. what a fantastic cast and fantastic production. they frame things throughout as if it were to look like a stage production only for that to be the eventual main plot point. one of my favorite scenes (if not films) of the year
Oct 6, 2024
Not even that crazy of a movie but I’m gonna contradict that by saying it may have changed my life. I truly don’t know why but i left this movie a different person. don’t really give a shit about Ben stillers character and I don’t think the movie really does either. maybe it’s when Winona gets in the fight and says “play a show a night, play 3 shows a night” idk. I wasn’t there for the 90s but this feels like a time capsule like Troy is the years 1991-1997 in human form. It’s been 24 hours since I saw this but it feels like it has clicked something in my brain. maybe it’s when Winona says “i was really gonna be something by the age of 23” and then my theater laughed. one of those movies I want to live in (Houston in 1994). Had to get this off my chest this movie despite having a standard enough plot has been rattling through my brain, truly a character movie wish they spent more time with zahn and garofolo’s characters but idgaf
Mar 24, 2024
I watched this claustrophobic first date movie during the lockdowns and it's stuck with me ever since. I've never seen a movie where the inability to connect due to long-calcified adult neuroticisms and insecurities take centre stage, and is executed so well.
Also when you can no longer rely on the looks and charms of your 20s-30s to keep yourself from being alone on a Friday night... when you have to get honest with yourself and others about who you are in order to connect... when your interests and quirks become so niche out of prolonged loneliness that connecting with someone again seems impossible, when in reality it's so possible, you just need to give yourself and others a little bit of grace...
I'd love to see the play version of this.
May 31, 2024
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Feb 5, 2024