Thursday, June 12, 2014

Barefoot 2014


Barefoot


     Jay Wheeler is messing up his life.  He likes to gamble, he likes to go to strip clubs, he’s on probation for various offenses and he owes a Mr. Big a lot of money.  Mr. Big says he won’t mind splitting Jay’s head open if he doesn’t have his money by Friday!!  Jay comes from a wealthy family but they are estranged.  He decides he’ll attend his brother’s wedding to hit his dad up for the money he owes.  The only problem, he needs a date and none of the strippers want to go with him?  He’s been mopping floors in a mental hospital and he meets Daisy.  She decides she wants to leave the hospital and Jay decides she will be his date?
      There are a lot of things about this film that don't seem plausible and it seems like an older movie?  A mentally ill mother raised Daisy but she has perfect hair, flawless makeup and she doesn’t know anything about the real world?  Jay is supposedly trying to punish his father by his constant out of line behavior.  How does he think Daisy will be able to fit in with his family?  I guess we are not to bother with these issues, just set them all aside?  Maybe Wood had a lot of fun with this role?  3* (This movie is OK)
 
90 min, Comedy directed by Andrew Fleming with Evan Rachel Wood, Scott Speedman, J.K. Simmons, Treat Williams, Kate Burton, J. Omar Castro, David Jensen, Jaquelilne Flemming, Ashleigh Borman.

Note:  Imdb 6.7 out of 10, 11% critic 46% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2*.







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