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Written by Tess Morris.
Directed by Ben Palmer. Starring Lake Bell, Simon Pegg, Rory Kinnear and Ken
Scott. UK/France, 2015.
A socially awkward woman
who thinks she’ll never meet Mr. Right takes advantage of a moment of mistaken
identity in order to snag someone else’s blind date. Things go great until the
truth comes out, and then things get wacky.
This movie benefits from
two things: first, the leads are great – Simon Pegg and Lake Bell have great
chemistry and are both funny and believable. Secondly, the mix-up plot is only
half the movie – instead of saving “finding out the lie” for halfway through
act 3, we get about half the movie of what happens AFTER the lie gets found
out, and plenty of time to see how things resolve themselves. It’s not just one
of those convenient plot misunderstands that is easily fixed in a couple
scenes, but a series of comedic scenes unto themselves.
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