Bart Boost
N.Y. Post critic Lou Lumenick recently caught a Tribeca Film Festival screening of Brian Hecker‘s Bart Got a Room, and was pleasantly surprised. “I didn’t have enormous expectations,” he writes, “for this autobiographical story about a teenager trying to find a prom date in a south Florida town with the help of his newly-divorced parents, played by William H. Macy (in a Jewfro!) and Cheryl Hines.
Macy, Kaplan in Bart Got a Room
“But it’s hilarious, quick-paced (80 minutes!) with lots of smarts and heart and a terrific lead performance by newcomer Steven Kaplan and, unusually for a teen comedy, a big-band score. Some smart distributor should snap this up quick.”
The picture has an American Pie/Eugene-Levy-and-Jason-Biggs feel.
Yeah, that big band score will help it top recent non-starters like Charlie Bartlett.
The title is only a little better than Igby Goes Down (which was pretty underrated).
Good luck, “smart” distributor.
I was also at the screening last night and I’m 100% with Lou—the film is funny throughout, features great performances, and was the best surprise of the festival, for me.
It would be refreshing if young filmmakers could use someone other than Wes Anderson as a visual touchstone. This shot tells me that the movie is nothing more than 2nd gen Rushmore/Tenenbaum. How about B&W Beta Video? Anything, anything other than this tired “deadpan,” low-angle framing stuff. I mean really, enough, already.
Yeah, speaking of cliched stills (THE HAPPENING), how many times have we seen this shot of the two leads sitting on a couch staring straight forward at the camera and looking all sorts of disaffected?
Anything, anything other than this tired “deadpan,” low-angle framing stuff. I mean really, enough, already.
Exactly. Maybe this movie is funny, but this publicity still is like a warning sign.
Its seems a bit more of a “Slums of Beverley Hills” vibe than “American Pie” to me.
Lou can go FUCK HIMSELF!! , I’ve never forget the heartless and cruel eulogy he gave Heath Ledger 2 hours after he died. He’s a steaming pile of shit.
http://blogs.nypost.com/movies/archives/2008/01/heath_ledger_19.html
If it’s Wes Anderson, it’s Anderson channeling Mike Nichols, Hal Ashby, Luis Bu√É∆í√Ǭ±uel, Buster Keaton, etc. This shot goes back way before Wes was born.
Is William H. Macy the next Best Supporting Actor nominee partly on the strength of an awful haircut?
That hair has made me realize that Macy needs to play Lou Reed.
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