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Friday, July 24
Shrink
Spacey Cakes
Trailers & Mo | Official Website
Our shrink in Shrink is Kevin Spacey, who after his wife's death has been living a full year in filth and pot smoke (thanks to his kooky dealer, played by Jesse Plemons), could use some shrinkage himself. He finds reasons to keep his chin up thru some of his equally down in the dumps patients, Saffron Burrows and Akeelah without a bee, and from his encouraging family and friends, the always grizzled-tastic Robert Loggia and the particularly goofy Mark Webber, who's trying to worm his way into the pants of Pell James, who works for the malicious Ari Gold-like über-agent Dallas Roberts (this guy needs to be in everything), whose Russel Brand-like client Jack Huston has his own drug and partying demons, and is starring in a horrible film with Robin Williams, who likes to have a lot of sex and do Walter Cronkite impersonations, and of course, is also a patient of Spacey's. As you can tell, it all comes full circle, and since it does, there's not much mystery in the outcome for all of our new friends cept that life is screwy and funny and things and stuff and things!
Thomas Moffett's second stab at a screenplay is not blowing minds stuff by any imagination of the stretch. Shrink, directed by Jonas Pate, is juss one giant familiar hodgepodge of other hit or miss recent fare about folks living and working in Hollywurst (or those who dwell in some sort of suburban hell), who all end up crossing paths in some (un)happy coincidental way or another. Now juss cause it's retread city doesn't mean for a second that it's not entertaining to watch, cause it is (despite what they say). In a shellnut, Shrink is Entourage meets In Treatment meets What Just Happened? meets The Wackness meets American Beauty meets Crash meets Ordinary People meets Akeelah and the Bee meets any movie where Saffron Burrows is moody AND hot. Man is she hot! One day she'll replace Susan Sarandon as flyest old lady mt EVERest. Sarandon took that title away from Jessica Tandy after she passed on, and she took over for Mary Todd Lincoln, who was said to be a huge fan of Burrows' former love Mike Figgis (it's hip to be square AND full circle!). How Todd Linc was able to see any of his work is anyone's guess, but we think the great Doc Brown may have had a hand in making it happen
Mad Woman: remember Laura Ramsey?
She was Don Draper's Palm Springs fling last season on Mad Sex/Men. In Shrink she stretches her talent, playing an aspiring 'actress' who has no problem sleeping her way to the top. Not that there's anything wrong with that, cause you and your mother and wees and our mothers would let her if wees was in that position. Apparently her ladder climbing skills aint juss for the cinematic world but fo the fauxreal world as well, as her first gig was playing 'herself' in that awful Real Cancun movie. peep her brief audition tape
Verdictgo: Jeepers Worth A Peepers
Shrink inks it in NY & LA today, and elsewhere elsewhen
and until next thyme the balcony is clothed...
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