Anna Kendrick plays a reckless young woman who moves into her brother's basement after a bad break-up with her latest boyfriend. Once again Swanberg explores the troubles of alcoholism but never feels like he's shaking his finger at it and instead is simply describing some of it's lesser attributes. With it's focus on the quieter moments in life and seemingly mundane conversation the film and actors manages to tell more in a mere 30 seconds than most mainstream films can clumsily utter in 30 minutes.
The naturalism, awkwardness and quiet moments of people just getting to know each other through observation isn't for everybody but anybody who doesn't like their storytelling spelt out to them will find something comfortable in this film.
3 burnt pizzas out of 5
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