SHAPSHOT
After losing an audition for her dream job, an aspiring Los Angeles TV news anchor goes out for an uncharacteristic night of partying. She awakes in a stranger’s bed to a phone message from her agent telling her the job is hers, if she can make it across town by 5 pm. Stranded in an unknown area without money, a phone, and a car, she embarks on a series of misadventures as she races to the most important job interview of her life. (synopsis via heyuguys.co.uk)
So we all know that the job market is competitive right now, no matter what your line of work might be.
But what about if the job of the lifetime, as a big time network news anchor beckoned, and you had just woken up after a drunken night out without anything that allowed you to get to that all important interview?
You might just be a little stressed right?
Or a lot, if you’re the always hilarious Elizabeth Banks and everything you dreamed of and hoped for rests on you making it across town to the interview of a lifetime.
Of course, being a comedy with more than a hint of The Hangover to it, getting anywhere is going to be an ordeal of crazy funny proportions, and you know what?
While I have a low tolerance generally for so-called Hollywood comedies, most of which turn out to be as funny as a meeting of assassins in a graveyard, this looks like it could actually pretty good.
That it is actually funny haha, and not funny groan, will likely owe a lot to the awesomely talented Elizabeth Banks who had made is laugh out loud with delight in movies like The 40 Year Old Virgin and The Hunger Games, and to the well-picked supporting cast which includes James Marsden (Anchor Man 2: The Legend Continues) in the co-lead role, Gillian Jacobs (Community), Kevin Neelon (Weeds) and a host of other comedy greats.
I am expecting to laugh so hard I knock popcorn all over the place when Walk of Shame opens on 25 April in USA and that always wonderful date TBA in Australia.