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🎙️ EPISODE 607: 11.28.22
TRUE RANDOM is back, folks! That's right, after what feels like many months of stinkers and snoozers, the straight-up bad and the impossibly bland, I got a legit good film from the GODS of TRUE RANDOM. Going in, just from its title and the year it was released and knowing nothing else, I not only had no expectations for this, but I was actively worried it was going to suck. Such has been my luck lately. But this is a super original script/idea. One that's really hard to execute with (mainly) just two actors for 90 minutes. But Adam Pally and Rosa Salazar are great and have tremendous chemistry. It's such a fresh spin on the romcom with a really thoughtful and well laid-out plot which slowly reveals itself. It's about power dynamics between women and men, and social status and money, and the fallacy of idolization, and more.
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Incredible to weave so many ruminative yet tangible threads through such a simple setup and also keep it funny. And sure, the constraints made it damn near impossible to stick the landing (and there's an unfortunate and glaring continuity error towards the final stretch), but they nevertheless give it the ole college try and the ending IS satisfying. Just a really sweet and fun and enjoyable effort from director Charles Hood, who's only other feature credit is a looney-looking micro-budget flick called
Freezer Burn from 2007, which... I kind of have to see now I think?
Night Owls is an American romantic comedy drama film directed by Charles Hood that debuted at the South by Southwest festival. It stars Adam Pally as workaholic Kevin who has a drunken one-night stand with the beautiful train-wreck Madeline, Rosa Salazar, whom he is horrified to realize is actually his boss' jilted ex-mistress. When she takes a bottle of sleeping pills, Kevin is forced to keep her awake all night, over the course of which the two begin to fall for each other. It was released on March 13, 2015.
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