You won't have much trouble avoiding this, of course. It is an obscure indie film from 2005 that I doubt was released in theatres at all. (It was at the Toronto Film Festival). Director Adam Rapp is a theatrical director with only 3 film credits including this (quelle surprise).
Took 15 years to get "direct to DVD" and even then only because Will Ferrel and Zooey Deschanel are in the cast, along with a subdued Ed Harris who I thought for quite a while was Bruce Dern (rocking stringy old man white hair).
LOL, I also spend most of the film thinking it was retro, and set in the past, because I didn't realize it was MADE 15 YEARS AGO....so that's why Zooey Deschanel (who is 40 now) looks totally amazing. It's not makeup or lighting! it's being only 24 years old.
Awful, pretentious, downbeat, sad sack stuff complete with emo music. That alone wouldn't be so bad, but in the first 15 minutes, emo girl Zooey DROWNS her beloved (and utterly adorable) kitten in a gym bag when she drops it in the river. Why? the kitten was sick (FeLV) with a treatable condition. She could have A. taken it to a shelter, B. had it put to sleep or C. treated it -- FeLV is a chronic but treatable condition with a 70% survival rate. But no....it seemed logical to her (or the director/writer) to brutally kill the kitten in horrific painful way with no emotion or guilt, and it is never referenced again in the film....as if it were the story equivalent of her slamming her fingers in a drawer or shooting up cocaine. Ho hum.
I can't excuse that, even in a 15 yr old boring indie film that nobody ever saw. Shame on the ENTIRE CAST AND CREW, director and anyone else who found this acceptable in ANY WAY! (NOTE: the actual kitten was not harmed and someone in the crew adopted him.)
I should not have to watch that at all, and I am sorry I let the movie run to its boring useless conclusion.
Unless you are the most extreme Zooey or Will Ferrell fan, I would avoid this like the plague.
Took 15 years to get "direct to DVD" and even then only because Will Ferrel and Zooey Deschanel are in the cast, along with a subdued Ed Harris who I thought for quite a while was Bruce Dern (rocking stringy old man white hair).
LOL, I also spend most of the film thinking it was retro, and set in the past, because I didn't realize it was MADE 15 YEARS AGO....so that's why Zooey Deschanel (who is 40 now) looks totally amazing. It's not makeup or lighting! it's being only 24 years old.
Awful, pretentious, downbeat, sad sack stuff complete with emo music. That alone wouldn't be so bad, but in the first 15 minutes, emo girl Zooey DROWNS her beloved (and utterly adorable) kitten in a gym bag when she drops it in the river. Why? the kitten was sick (FeLV) with a treatable condition. She could have A. taken it to a shelter, B. had it put to sleep or C. treated it -- FeLV is a chronic but treatable condition with a 70% survival rate. But no....it seemed logical to her (or the director/writer) to brutally kill the kitten in horrific painful way with no emotion or guilt, and it is never referenced again in the film....as if it were the story equivalent of her slamming her fingers in a drawer or shooting up cocaine. Ho hum.
I can't excuse that, even in a 15 yr old boring indie film that nobody ever saw. Shame on the ENTIRE CAST AND CREW, director and anyone else who found this acceptable in ANY WAY! (NOTE: the actual kitten was not harmed and someone in the crew adopted him.)
I should not have to watch that at all, and I am sorry I let the movie run to its boring useless conclusion.
Unless you are the most extreme Zooey or Will Ferrell fan, I would avoid this like the plague.