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"Mr. Roosevelt" by Noël Wells

11. Film - Mr. Roosevelt

Year - 2017 Director - Noël Wells Cast - Noël Wells, Nick Thune, Britt Lower Cinematographer - Dagmar Weaver-Madsen Rating - 3/10 For fans of - Frances Ha, How To Be Single, New Girl

What it is.

A twenty-something struggling comedian returns to her college hometown after her cat falls ill. Unable to afford a flight home, she stays in her ex-boyfriend’s house and has to come to terms with his new partner and the new life he has chosen for himself.

What rates it.

I found this film pretty insufferable because it felt like just another Manic Pixie Dream Girl tale, filmed in another American town, with another brown hair girl with a box fringe that wasn’t Zooey Deschanel but looks enough like her that we get the vibe. It was cringe to watch a film where women are pitted against each other and it was cringe to watch a film where all the women in the movie were focused on making one guy feel better. The only good thing about this film is that the Director (Wells), appears to have selected a mostly female crew to work on the movie.