Winter Passing (4 of 5): Zooey Deschanel (the blonde department store employee from Elf) plays the angry, often ignored daughter of 2 famous writers. After a publishing company contacts her and offers to pay big if she returns home and retrieves a lost manuscript her deceased mother was believed to have written; she returns home to find an alcoholic father (Ed Harris) who now lives in the garage, a former literary student acting as his caretaker, and Will Ferrell, an out of work, former Christian rockgroup frontman, living in the house. I thought the story was excellent, and the characters were very well developed. Ferrells' character is hillarious even when he isn't trying to be, or maybe he was trying....Regardless, it was a very unique story, and great soundtrack.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Movie Review - Winter Passing
Winter Passing (4 of 5): Zooey Deschanel (the blonde department store employee from Elf) plays the angry, often ignored daughter of 2 famous writers. After a publishing company contacts her and offers to pay big if she returns home and retrieves a lost manuscript her deceased mother was believed to have written; she returns home to find an alcoholic father (Ed Harris) who now lives in the garage, a former literary student acting as his caretaker, and Will Ferrell, an out of work, former Christian rockgroup frontman, living in the house. I thought the story was excellent, and the characters were very well developed. Ferrells' character is hillarious even when he isn't trying to be, or maybe he was trying....Regardless, it was a very unique story, and great soundtrack.
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If you like this, I think you'd like Eulogy. Darkly hilarious, and also starring Zooey Deschanel.
Yeah, I saw that one and loved it. Uncanny, the similarities, between that movie and my family.
Eulogy 4 of 5
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