Late Night 2019

    This film is released by Amazon Original.  Katherine Newbury is the host of a late-night talk-show.  She has had a long run with her show but the producers are disappointed with her attitude and her ratings are very down.  Molly Patel has been working at a chemical facility and she applies for a job as a writer.  Because everyone thinks that Katherine is a hater of other women, she hires Molly right away.  Molly is worried that she has been hired because she is a woman and also an ethnic minority.  This is a double bonus on the books for Katherine.  Molly is determined to be a good writer and to be an addition to the team.
     Molly is shocked when she learns that the men have been using the women’s bathroom along with their own bathroom.  She can’t be alone with her thoughts or tears without one of the men writers running in the door with an emergency.  Molly shares what she thinks and sometimes this is not to her best advantage!!  She knows she doesn’t want to leave New York and go back to the chemical plant!!!  There are positive messages about hard work, courage, perseverance, tolerance and being your own authentic person.  There is also discussion about ageism, sexism, classism and racism.  4* (I liked this movie)  

102 min, Comedy directed by Nisha Ganatra and written by Mindy Kaling with Emma Thompson, John Lithgow, Mindy Kaling, Hugh Dancy, Reid Scott, Denis O’Hare, Max Casella, Paul Walter Hauser, John Early, Jia Patel, Luke Slattery, Ike Barinholtz, March Kudisch, Amy Ryan, Megalyn Echikunwoke.

Note:  Imdb 6.5 out of 10, Rotten Tomatoes 80% critic 77% audience, Roger Ebert 3 1/2* Sheila O’Malley, Rolling Stone 4* out of 5* Peter Travers, Washington Psot 3 1/2* Ann Hornaday, Amazon 4.1* out of 5* with 2444 reviews, Letterboxd 3.1* out of 5*, Metacritic 70 out of 100 with 46 critics (32 positive, 13 mixed, 1 negative) 5.9 out of 10 user score (24 positive, 16 mixed, 10 negative), Common Sense Media Joyce Slaton, age 14+, 4* positive, 4* role models, 2* sex, 4*( language, 2* drinking, drugs & smoking.

Special Note:  Filmed in New York.  Monday Kaling wrote the role of Katherine specifically for Emma Thompson.  Kaling has worked for Conan O’Brien as an intern.  Emma Thompson talks about her character having clinical depression.  Emma has previously discussed her own clinical depression after her divorce from Kenneth Branagh in 1994.  She is now married to Greg Wise, he is also an actor and they have one daughter Gaia born in 1999.