A failed New York playwright awkwardly navigates the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year's News.
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Michelle Morgan
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Kristen Wiig | ... | Imogene Duncan | |
| Annette Bening | ... | Zelda Duncan | |
| Matt Dillon | ... | George Bousche | |
| Darren Criss | ... | Lee | |
| Christopher Fitzgerald | ... | Ralph Duncan | |
| June Diane Raphael | ... | Dara | |
| Natasha Lyonne | ... | Allyson | |
| Bob Balaban | ... | Maxwell P. Duncan | |
| Sydney Lucas | ... | Little Imogene | |
| Ilana Levine | ... | Teacher | |
| Jimmy Palumbo | ... | Doorman Joe | |
| Michelle Morgan | ... | Georgina | |
| Mickey Sumner | ... | Hannah | |
| Elizabeth Inghram | ... | Sloane | |
| Brian Petsos | ... | Peter Van Woodsen | |
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Kristen Wiig stars as Imogene, a failed New York playwright awkwardly navigating the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year's News. After both her career and relationship hit the skids, she's forced to make the humiliating move back home to New Jersey with her eccentric mother and younger brother (Annette Bening and Christopher Fitzgerald). Adding further insult to injury, there's a strange man sleeping in her old bedroom (Darren Criss) and an even stranger man sleeping in her mother's bed (Matt Dillon). Through it all, Imogene eventually realizes that as part of her rebuilding process she must finally come to love and accept both her family and her Jersey roots if she's ever going to be stable enough to get the hell away from them. Written by Roadside Attractions
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playwright | fired from a job | failed writer | man child | mother daughter relationship |Taglines:
She wanted the perfect family, she got her own instead. See more »Genres:
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Imogene: Uhhm, I grew up in the Atlantic City area, near the beach, so...
Libby: Then every day was like summer, right?
Imogene: No, every day was not like summer; every day was like being impaled with a blunt wooden object, over and over again.
Libby: Anyway...
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Written by Walai Pipatcharoenkij
Performed by Lady AM
Courtesy of 5 AM Music Limited
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The writer Michelle Morgan also stars in the film as Georgina, she was one of the upper class aristocrat mean girls. See more »Goofs
When Darren Criss' character is filming the family get into the limo at the end of the film, you can see his phone's screen and tell that he isn't actually recording anyone. See more »Quotes
Libby: What about your family?Imogene: Uhhm, I grew up in the Atlantic City area, near the beach, so...
Libby: Then every day was like summer, right?
Imogene: No, every day was not like summer; every day was like being impaled with a blunt wooden object, over and over again.
Libby: Anyway...
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Morning SunWritten by Walai Pipatcharoenkij
Performed by Lady AM
Courtesy of 5 AM Music Limited
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18 July 2013 (Netherlands) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$694,447, 21 July 2013Gross USA:
$1,378,591Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$2,085,617Company Credits
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'GIRL MOST LIKELY': Four Stars (Out of Five)
Kristen Wiig stars in this comedy film directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (the team behind the Harvey Pekar biography comedy film 'AMERICAN SPLENDOR'). It was written by Michelle Morgan and co-stars Annette Bening, Matt Dillon, Christopher Fitzgerald and Darren Criss. Wiig plays a New York playwright who's fallen on hard times and fakes her suicide in order to try and win her ex-boyfriend back. She instead ends up having to move back home with her mother and little brother. The movie got mostly negative reviews and didn't receive a wide theatrical release but I enjoyed it quite a bit.
The film was originally titled 'Imogene', which is the name of Wiig's character. Imogene was an up and coming New York playwright who's career went nowhere quickly and she ends up losing her job and her boyfriend, Peter (Brian Petsos), at the same time. In an attempt to win Peter back she stages her suicide but is instead ordered to move back in with her mother, Zelda (Bening), and younger brother, Ralph (Fitzgerald), temporarily. Once home she finds her mother is also living with a man claiming to be a secret agent (Dillon), who she's also hooking up with, and a young man named Lee (Criss), who rented out her old room. Things just get more crazy from there as she attempts to get her life back on track.
The film was very nicely directed and the script is clever and smart. I found all the characters to be likable and oddly enjoyable as well as adequately developed. Wiig is a good leading lady and I enjoy her in films like this much more than something like 'BRIDESMAIDS'. Criss and Fitzgerald (who plays a character which seems like it was written for Zach Galifianakis) both stand out in the movie as well and Bening and Dillon are also hilarious in it. The movie is just a really quirky and funny heartfelt film. I'm not sure why it hasn't gotten better recognition but it's definitely one worth seeing.
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