The Boss 2016

     Michelle Darnell is considered to be a female titan of industry.  Unfortunately, she is charged with insider trading and she serves a six-month prison sentence.  Upon her release she must immediately get back on the fast track.  Failure is not an option!!  She is determined to rebrand herself as America’s latest sweetheart despite her felony record.  There are many people with memories that are not so charitable towards Michelle.  They are not so quick to forgive and forget her ruthless treatment directed towards them.

     One of the lines spoken by McCarthy’s character is “Pity’s all you’ve got.  Pity’s your best friend.”  Michelle gets her hard center core from growing up in a church orphanage.  She doesn’t like to reveal this information and she sugarcoats it!!   There are some hilarious scenes in this film?  Especially when they are involve the Dandelion Girls cookie sales.  Claire Rawlings has a daughter Rachel and she is a member of a group selling cookies for fundraising.  Michelle convinces Claire to quit her day job and make batches of brownies at home.  This new group founded by Michelle will sell the brownies like the cookie sale program.  The brownies will cost more, the girls will get more of the profit and some of the funds will go toward their college education.  I think this film would have been better if the swearing and sexual innuendos were eliminated?  I think there are enough laughs with this type of behavior!!  3 ½* (I liked this movie)   

  

99 min, Comedy directed by Ben Falcone with Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Bell, Peter Dinklage, Ella Anderson, Tyler Labine, Kathy Bates, Cecily Strong, Mary Sohn, Kristen Schaal, Eva Peterson, Timothy Simons, Aleandra Newcomb, Annie Mumolo, Presley Coley, Dax Shepard.

Note:  Imdb 5.4 out of 10, 22% critic 38% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 1 ½*, Amazon 3.3* out of 5* with 1356 reviews, Metacritic 40 out of 100 with 39 critics 4.4* out of 10 with 102 reviews, Common Sense Media ratings, age 16+,  2* out of 5*, 2* positive, 2* role models, 3* violence, 3* sex, 4* language, 2* consumerism, 3* drinking, drugs, smoking.

Special Note:  Filmed in Chicago, Illinois and Atlanta, Morrow, Decatur, Georgia.  The original title was Michelle Darnell and her character is based on an old Melissa McCarthy stand up comedy routine.  McCarthy is married to Ben Falcone and their daughters are in this film.  Her older daughter Vivian Falcone plays 10 year-old Michelle in 1980.  Her younger daughter Georgette plays a background extra.  Kirsten Bell’s husband Dax Sheppard has a small cameo role.  They are also the parents of two daughters, Delta Bell Shepard and Lincoln Shepard.  Ben Falcone’s parents appear briefly in a fight scene as neighbors slamming their front door.  McCarthy and Falcone were previously in the TV series Mike & Molly.  There is a scene with Michelle giving a hand gesture to a building with the word Renault across the side.  This is the Trump Tower in Chicago.  Many people take selfies giving this gesture to this building.  The childhood clips of Michelle show her with dark brown or black hair.  She will later claim that red is her natural hair color?  I thought it was unusual and funny that Michelle wears very high turtlenecks throughout the entire film??  I thought it was to conceal any neck wrinkles she didn't want to reveal??