This movie, for all the potential of everyone on screen, fails. It fails on so many fronts: the makeup looks patchy in HD; the hair styles vary wildly between decades; acting choices, regardless of the tone of the story, are made of big swings and many big misses; green screen scenes are obvious and distracting; the sound editing is all over the place; set dressings are sloppy - Drapes are un-ironed, pictures frames are cheap, etc. Etc.
Molly Shannon is the only thing that holding this film together. Every moment of her performance is authentic and sincere. If not for her, this low-budget film would be a total disaster. And perhaps that's what's really missing - money. It's not just that everything on screen reads as cheap, it's that the cheapness doesn't translate as indie, it reads as if the movie was barely scraping by.
Molly Shannon is the only thing that holding this film together. Every moment of her performance is authentic and sincere. If not for her, this low-budget film would be a total disaster. And perhaps that's what's really missing - money. It's not just that everything on screen reads as cheap, it's that the cheapness doesn't translate as indie, it reads as if the movie was barely scraping by.