Girl Most Likely

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Girl Most Likely

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Directed by Shari Springer Berman
Robert Pulcini
Produced by Mark Amin
Alix Madigan
Celine Rattray
Trudie Styler
Screenplay by Michelle Morgan
Starring Kristen Wiig
Annette Bening
Matt Dillon
Darren Criss
Christopher Fitzgerald
Natasha Lyonne
Music by Rob Simonsen
Cinematography Steve Yedlin
Editing by Robert Pulcini
Distributed by Lionsgate
Roadside Attractions
Release dates
  • September 7, 2012 (2012-09-07) (TIFF)
  • July 19, 2013 (2013-07-19) (United States)
Running time 103 minutes[1]
Country United States
Language English
Box office $2,083,544[2]

Girl Most Likely is a 2012 American comedy film directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. Based on a screenplay by Michelle Morgan, the film stars Kristen Wiig as a playwright who stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother, played by Annette Bening. Matt Dillon, Christopher Fitzgerald, Natasha Lyonne, and Darren Criss co-star.

The film was screened under its original title Imogene at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2012. The same month, Lionsgate bought the US distribution rights following its Toronto premiere and released it with Roadside Attractions on July 19, 2013.[3]

Plot

Kristen Wiig stars as Imogene, a failed New York playwright awkwardly navigating the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year's News. After both her career and relationship hit the skids, she's forced to make the humiliating move back home to New Jersey with her eccentric mother and younger brother (Annette Bening and Christopher Fitzgerald). Adding further insult to injury, there's a strange man sleeping in her old bedroom (Darren Criss) and an even stranger man sleeping in her mother's bed (Matt Dillon). Through it all, Imogene eventually realizes that as part of her rebuilding process she must finally come to love and accept both her family and her Jersey roots if she's ever going to be stable enough to get the hell away from them. [4]

Cast

Reception

Upon its festival release, Girl Most Likely garnered generally negative reviews from critics. Christopher Schobert from film blog The Playlist called the film "a big-screen sitcom, elevated by Kristen Wiig and Annette Bening".[5] He wrote that Wiig's "likability oozes from every scene in Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's occasionally winning, a touch too sitcom-y, but often very funny look at one woman’s offbeat family and her attempts at discovering just what went wrong on the road to success. It is not, to be sure, Bridesmaids-style humor, and never reaches that blockbuster’s belly laugh count. But the film doesn't lack for moments of inspired comedy, and I expect it to find an audience."[5]

Deborah Young, writing for The Hollywood Reporter, also felt that "the film’s great strength is its intuitive casting. The actors interact so well that it’s hard to single out one performance, though it’s perhaps Bening who wins the day for the sexy humanity she gives to the former go-go dancer Zelda. Morgan’s screenplay is full of intelligent dialogue that got real laughs from the audience on its Toronto bow."[6] In his review, Justin Chang from Variety felt that "an able cast, led by Kristen Wiig’s prickly lead turn, saves this uneven, excessively quirky but ultimately ingratiating story [...] Offering another sly snapshot of the filmmakers' native New York, a la The Nanny Diaries and The Extra Man this soft-bellied crowdpleaser should post modest numbers in specialty play and DVD/VOD rotation.[7]

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 20% rating based on 85 reviews with the site's consensus: "Largely witless and disappointingly dull, Girl Most Likely strands the gifted Kristen Wiig in a blandly hollow foray into scattershot sitcom territory."[8]

References

  1. ↑ "GIRL MOST LIKELY (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. 2013-06-07. Retrieved 2013-06-10. 
  2. ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=girlmostlikely.htm
  3. ↑ "Kristen Wiig Film ‘Imogene’ Gets New Title And July 19th Release Date". Deadline.com. 2012-12-20. Retrieved 2012-12-29. 
  4. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1698648/
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Schobert, Christopher (2012-09-09). "TIFF Review: 'Imogene' Is A Big-Screen Sitcom, But Elevated By Kristen Wiig & Annette Bening". The Playlist. Retrieved 2012-12-29. 
  6. ↑ Young, Deborah (2012-09-07). "Imogene: Toronto Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2012-12-29. 
  7. ↑ Chang, Justin (2012-09-07). "Toronto Film Fest Reviews: Imogene". Variety. Retrieved 2012-12-29. 
  8. ↑ "Girl Most Likely (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. 
  1. http://www.cinemablend.com/reviews/Girl-Most-Likely-6499.html
  2. http://nextprojection.com/2013/07/19/review-girl-most-likely-2012/
  3. http://bigfanboy.com/wp/?p=19695
  4. http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/girl-most-likely-2013

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