MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Kristen Wiig stars as Imogene, once a promising young New York playwright whose promise has fizzled, thanks to a crisis of confidence. Heavily in denial about being dumped by her society boyfriend, Imogene uses her skill for drama to stage an elaborate fake suicide as an appeal for his sympathy. But her attempt backfires when she’s put into the custody of Zelda, her estranged gambling addict mother (Annette Bening), and must return home with her to the Jersey shore. Desperate to get back to her Manhattan circle of so- called friends, Imogene must finally deal with her family, including her unique brother (Christopher Fitzgerald), Zelda’s new boyfriend The Bousche (Matt Dillon), plus a cute young lodger (Darren Criss),who together help Imogene sort out her place in the world. (source: coming soon.net)
Life is a thoroughly unpredictable beast isn’t it?
We never know what will happen next, despite thinking we are totally in control, and often the blindingly bright promise of our early years doesn’t come to fruition in the quite the way we’d envisaged.
Imogene (Kristen Wiig) is one person who would likely give that perspective on the vagaries of life a hearty “Amen!”
Forced back home into the most dysfunctional of homes after her dream life, the one she thought she be living for the rest of her life, falls apart, Imogene has to grapple with the great divide between expectations and reality.
And in so doing, try not to get swallowed up by the yawning abyss between the two.
Or get left, fast asleep, in a casino parking lot while her gambling-addicted mother (played beautifully by Annette Bening) fritters away her money inside.
Imogene undergoes the rudest of rude awakenings and as you might expect, it’s fertile ground for what looks like a very funny comedy.
My confidence that this movie will actually deliver some real laughs – in my experience very few comedies are actually all that, well, funny – is bolstered by the presence of SNL-alum Wiig and Bening in major roles but by the fact that the movie has already had an outing at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2012 under its original title Imogene, to largely positive reviews such as this one:
“[Girl Most LIkely] is a big-screen sitcom, elevated by Kristen Wiig and Annette Bening … [Wiig’s] likability oozes from every scene in Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s occasionally winning, a touch too sitcom-y, but often very funny look at one woman’s offbeat family and her attempts at discovering just what went wrong on the road to success. It is not, to be sure, Bridesmaids-style humor, and never reaches that blockbuster’s belly laugh count. But the film doesn’t lack for moments of inspired comedy, and I expect it to find an audience.” (source: Christopher Schobert from film blog The Playlist via Wikipedia)
It sounds like a movie with humanity and inspired-comedy and one that just might address through laughter that nagging sense that life isn;t quite what any of us expected it to be.
Girl Most Likely opens in the USA on 19 July 2013.