When I saw a trailer for this film, I saw it compared with “Fargo,” the Coen brothers classic. My spouse and I were both in need of a laugh so we went to search for it.
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I must agree with at least one other review that it’s an absurdly predictable account. Boy meets girl, they detest each other, yet drop in like and they all live happily ever after. That element of the record was a letdown. But there were enough laughs to redeem the legend.
I’ll paraphrase, and perhaps add a petite to another review: Rene plays Lucy Hill, a rising Yuppie corporate exec based in Miami. The company decides to send someone to Minnesota to terminate one of their plants. None of the guys will do it so Lucy volunteers. She, in suitable, corporate tradition, has her ogle on corporate VP, something she’s going to secure when she faithfully fulfills the company’s goals, proper?
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Well, when she gets to MN, she has so cramped perception of the conditions–cold, slippery–that she is, alas, a fish out of water. She meets her assistant, masterfully performed by Siobhan Fallon, who is an exaggeration of Frances McDormand’s role in “Fargo.” Her one-liners had both my spouse and I “ROFL”ing. I do have a comment though on Fallon’s (Blanche Gunderson’s) monolog: She asked Lucy if she’s found Jesus, and that became the cause for a burst of laughter from both Lucy and presumably the audience. I understanding that examine to be slightly incongruous; it’s something one would have more likely experienced in, say, Mississippi or Georgia than in Recent Ulm, MN.
Well, then, Lucy, while secretly trying to end the plant, meets fireman Ted Mitchell (Harry Connick) when she flew off the cold road. They eventually plunge in cherish… Well, the synopsis has already been written here so I won’t divulge it.
In the process, not only is esteem fallen into, but Lucy decides that, shucks, these are nice people. (The account reminded me of Michael J. Fox’s “Doc Hollywood” and countless other scripts.) She decides to preserve the station initiate, and they advance up with a fresh product, blah, blah, blah.
From an just perspective, while I was laughing at the script, I found that allotment of the legend to be a complete fantasy. Most of us know how corporations work these days. First, the product they came up with (no, I won’t give it away here and spoil the account) wouldn’t compete with the corporate, pre-packaged and advertised product. Second, no, the corporation’s not going to say, “Aw, shucks, let’s be nice to these folks whom Lucy told us are are so quaint.”
Then, without giving any more away, Lucy and Ted topple in like, and they all lived happily ever after.
Hmmm. I’m quite valuable of the yarn. So why do I give it four stars? Because of the laughs.
Again, I assume the belief of the accent was a product of McDormand’s academy award winning role in “Fargo.” In this film, they may have made a petite more of a caricature out of it. One of the Minnesotan characters, by the procedure, was played by one of my heroines, Frances Conroy (I’m a ample “Six Feet Under” fan) . But it was so well done, it had me laughing thoughout.
Then there’s the scene when Ted and Lucy try to disguise their indiscretion so that Ted’s daughter didn’t know what happened, another side-buster. But the choreography well-known of Lucy while Ted and Lucy were hunting and nature called was worth the label of the brand.
No, I won’t give away any more than that, but it was hysterical.
Again, as others have already said and more will surely say, if you’re after a soul-enhancing, humanitarian, or realistic record, this one might not be for you. That ain’t the diagram life works except maybe in the movies. but if you’d like some hearty laughs–maybe a shrimp to recount you from what’s going on in today’s economy, this is a side breaker.
Although marketed as a comedy, this has cramped in current with the DRECK that Hollywood has been churning out under the “comedy” designate (e.g. Bride Wars) because the point of this film is to progress to more sophisticated characterization and thought as its main character finds herself in a “fish out of water” setting, transplanted from Miami to a diminutive city in Minnesota.
This film contains aspects of quiet drama that enhance its credibility and respectability greatly. Characters become fully humanized as the film progresses, even if they at first seem like caricatures or stereotypes. That’s a main theme of the film – that people mis-judge each other all the time in ways that turn out to be unfair.
This is a good-hearted, well-played film that, although not really fresh in theme or set, carries a message that is well worth repeating, and does it very well through helpful performances and an delightful script. Critics really do not befriend the public well when they presume that something that’s been “done before” is therefore cross as a result, for films within the same subgenre are never truly identical, and it all boils down to the jam that “critics” are reviewing EVERYTHING, regardless of their hold prior interest in the film, and “critics” often lack any definite training or expertise to suppose their opinions, and “critics” are often left simply reacting to each other in peculiar contests about who can collect the film that is the most “new” – which usually ends up meaning the most aberrant and demeaning and cynical.
By dissimilarity, “Unique in Town” delivers an “used” message that truly deserves to be a Hollywood tradition… a nicely American message of overcoming the various sociocultural divides that exist in our country, of cutting through the many stereotypes that downplay and dismiss other people (and categories and groups), and instead coming to luxuriate in the gracious aspects of different lifestyles and preferences that exist throughout the country.
In this film, some of the social divisions that are addressed and dealt with include the urban/rural (or “puny town”) split, a blue-collar/white collar split, a college educated versus trades/crafts skill-based social class division, monetary wealth vs. budgeted fulfillments, religious/secular divides, and conflicting aspects of provincial/cosmopolitan perspectives. This is all enough to execute a very laudable, effective, fascinating, fascinating, and yes, even thought-provoking film! Of the kind that can actually have people reflecting on and working on improving their beget shortcomings and building bridges to accumulate along with others or at least able to leer their points-of-view.
Very well done!!!!
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