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MOVIE #1,385 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 02.20.24 Check out the previous post to find out why I watched this, a Lifetime Original Core melodrama that’s actually just a re-edited version of writer-director Ally Walker’s 2014 film, Sex, Death and Bowling. This isn't a ‘good’ movie — it's overly sappy and looks cheap — but its earnestness can't be ignored, and I actually liked quite a lot of the performances (it’s always nice to see Richard Riehle and Melora Walters in any sized role). There’s the expected annoyances (the subplot involving Selma Blair getting mad at hospice nurse Drea de Matteo for administering pain meds to her dying husband gets tired fast) as well as some unanticipated elements (Walters tells the son of the dying father a bedtime story that’s quaintly animated).

Adrien Grenier is fascinating to me. I feel like he’s universally derided as ‘bland handsome man’, which is true to a degree. I do find him boring, though not necessarily bad. But I keep wondering if there’s something else there. This is 100% related to his starring role as ‘actor’ on HBO’s Entourage, but is it a matter of his not being able to eclipse the stereotype or was there nothing there to begin with? Like, what would happen if Adrien Grenier popped up in a PTA movie? I’d love to see it, honestly.

There were a few comedic/unintentionally funny moments towards the end of this well. Seeing Grenier bowl in a cheap T-shirt made for the unseen character “Jesus”...


And this random shot of the nerd teammate (Wayne Wilderson) looking at trophy after the big homophobic dude starts a brawl…


Also fun fact: notable actor Tim DeKay (Oppenheimer) has the briefest of cameos as the host of a video being shown in a sex-ed class discussing wet dreams…

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Adrian Grenier stars as Sean McAllister, a successful fashion designer who hasn't seen his family in years. He returns to his hometown for a painstaking family reunion that will take him back to his past only to rebuild his future. It was released on January 1, 2021.