I just saw this off Showtime the other day. Aussie actress, Toni Collette, with her breakout performance in "Muriel's Wedding" twenty years ago, and since then amazing work in "The Sixth Sense", the show "United States of Tara", and more recently re-uniting with her "Muriel" director PJ Hogan for the film, "Mental", has evolved into one of the world's great actresses, and one of my personal favs.
In "Lucky Them" she plays a rock journalist assigned with tracking down her ex-boyfriend/former rock star who has since become a recluse (I won't say who it turns out to be *possible SPOILER* but you may have seen him in a few things ;) ). Her old pal played by Thomas Haden Church is along for the ride. And for me, what made this road movie was the relationship/chemistry between Church and Collette. Ever since TV's "Wings", Church has impressed me in so many performances over the years- "Sideways", the original AMC movie "Broken Trail", and right around the time "Wings" was on the air, the Fox series "Ned and Stacey", which we got to see him portray the romantic leading man. Here, his quirky/off- beat character works in contrast to Collette. Well, anyhoo, I would definitely give a recommend for this one.......
In "Lucky Them" she plays a rock journalist assigned with tracking down her ex-boyfriend/former rock star who has since become a recluse (I won't say who it turns out to be *possible SPOILER* but you may have seen him in a few things ;) ). Her old pal played by Thomas Haden Church is along for the ride. And for me, what made this road movie was the relationship/chemistry between Church and Collette. Ever since TV's "Wings", Church has impressed me in so many performances over the years- "Sideways", the original AMC movie "Broken Trail", and right around the time "Wings" was on the air, the Fox series "Ned and Stacey", which we got to see him portray the romantic leading man. Here, his quirky/off- beat character works in contrast to Collette. Well, anyhoo, I would definitely give a recommend for this one.......