Girl Most Likely 2012

     Imogene won a $30,000 grant to write a play.  She’s doing very well after this award, living in New York with her boyfriend in a nice apartment and she has a good job.  Things start to go south in a short amount of time.  Her boyfriend moves out, she can’t afford the apartment and she is let go from her job.  She believes a suicide attempt would bring back her boyfriend but she goes to the hospital instead.  She’s released into her mother’s care since there isn’t room for her at the hospital for observation.  This is the last thing she wants for her life.  Her mother leaves her in the back of the car while she gambles.  She finds out her room in New Jersey has been rented to a stranger and a man is living with her mother.

     There are some funny scenes in this film but there are too many characters, especially those living in New Jersey.  They are strange people who don’t add anything to the film except weirdness.  We are encouraged to laugh at them and then do an about face and feel compassion for them?  2 ½* (This movie is so-so)    

103 min, Comedy directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini with Kristen Wiig, Annette Bening, Matt Dillon, Darren Criss, Christopher Fitzgerald, June Diane Raphael.

Note:  Imdb 5.7 out of 10, 20% audience 36% critic on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 1 ½*.