'Bread and Butter' movie: Christine Weatherup and Bobby Moynihan. 'Bread and Butter' movie review: Late life virginity and other social anxieties in a funny and awkwardly romantic comedy The first insight of debuting feature film director Liz Manashil is that romantic comedies should actually be funny first and romantic second – if ever. Her film Bread and Butter eventually works its way to a kind of awkward romanticism, but it's always dryly funny; its silliness deftly masked by all manner of understatement and managed execution. The second insight of the screenwriter-director was to populate her funny romance with the kind of people you almost never see in romantic comedies; which is to say people who look like people you might know, who have friends you might have, and who deal with issues less explored and probably more common than we tend to talk about, including social and other anxieties, as well as late life virginity.
- 9/1/2015
- by Tim Cogshell
- Alt Film Guide
In the UK some film reviewers have mocked Russell Crowe.s directing debut and his performance in The Water Diviner, while audiences seemed unenthused.
Entertainment One launched the Turkish-set drama last Friday, fetching a modest £521,000 ($A1 million) in three days at 420 locations.
To be fair, the UK market was dominated by Universal.s juggernaut Fast & Furious 7, which rang up $24.8 million, part of a global haul of $US392 million.
Still, that.s a disappointing result for a film which has grossed a fine $15.7 million at home and $US5.7 million in Turkey. In Italy it.s earned just $US1.1 million, according to Box Office Mojo.
The next major tests are in France on April 15 and, via Warner Bros., the Us on April 24.
Typifying the sniffy reviews in the UK, The Guardian.s Peter Bradshaw observed, .Russell Crowe makes his feature directing debut with this laborious, well-intentioned movie about the aftermath of...
Entertainment One launched the Turkish-set drama last Friday, fetching a modest £521,000 ($A1 million) in three days at 420 locations.
To be fair, the UK market was dominated by Universal.s juggernaut Fast & Furious 7, which rang up $24.8 million, part of a global haul of $US392 million.
Still, that.s a disappointing result for a film which has grossed a fine $15.7 million at home and $US5.7 million in Turkey. In Italy it.s earned just $US1.1 million, according to Box Office Mojo.
The next major tests are in France on April 15 and, via Warner Bros., the Us on April 24.
Typifying the sniffy reviews in the UK, The Guardian.s Peter Bradshaw observed, .Russell Crowe makes his feature directing debut with this laborious, well-intentioned movie about the aftermath of...
- 4/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
In the midst of festival season, "Saturday Night Live" alum Bill Hader has recently demonstrated his dramatic chops in "The Skeleton Twins." And now, one of his former fellow castmates Bobby Moynihan (aka Drunk Uncle aka Ass Dan) is also turning things down a notch in "Bread And Butter." The actor co-stars with Christine Weatherup in the film, written and directed by Liz Manashil, that follows a 30 year-old virgin Amelia who falls for Leonard, the man who added his own thoughts to the margins of a used book she bought. But another guy, Daniel, comes calling, and soon she's faced with complications from the world of dating for the first time. And in this exclusive clip, you can see Daniel awkwardly making his affections known. "Bread And Butter" will have its world premiere at Woodstock Film Festival, which kicks off on October 15th. Watch below.
- 9/19/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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