How to describe a movie like this? Social media pundits may think it savvy and maybe even relevant but many might see a thin veneer over this story - which claims to be true but comes across as somewhat suss. Comedy? Well, if a young man undergoing a serious recovery session following an attempted suicide - being goaded by an absentee father who has stolen a young woman's social media details. And is now trying to connect with his son by pretending to be this young woman wanting to 'friend' him...strikes you as funny it might work for you.
Performances are fine, as is the cinematography, use of music is in keeping, but the script is overloaded with cheap vulgar dialogue, like you'd expect from a low grade R rated teen show. There are several life threatening situations that leave you expecting a tragic outcome, all creating a bad taste in the mouth. The father's cringe worthy actions are only made partly bearable by a good performance from Patton Oswalt, failing that, quite unforgivable.
If this is the best to be expected from social media based stories, then let's hope we don't get bludgeoned over the head with many more. Twitter I can accept, but have heard it said; 'With friends like Facebook you don't need enemies' and this show tends to illustrate that quite well. The better elements within this one are let down by too many shoddy, unsavory moments.
And World Movies ran this as a Father's Day movie - How old are their programmers?
Performances are fine, as is the cinematography, use of music is in keeping, but the script is overloaded with cheap vulgar dialogue, like you'd expect from a low grade R rated teen show. There are several life threatening situations that leave you expecting a tragic outcome, all creating a bad taste in the mouth. The father's cringe worthy actions are only made partly bearable by a good performance from Patton Oswalt, failing that, quite unforgivable.
If this is the best to be expected from social media based stories, then let's hope we don't get bludgeoned over the head with many more. Twitter I can accept, but have heard it said; 'With friends like Facebook you don't need enemies' and this show tends to illustrate that quite well. The better elements within this one are let down by too many shoddy, unsavory moments.
And World Movies ran this as a Father's Day movie - How old are their programmers?