SummaryBobby is a struggling screenwriter who tries to get romantically involved with a friend by agreeing to take care of her dog. He's also stuck on an idea for an arty screenplay involving talking pigeons. His friend Scott is a depressed musician bored with his girlfriend and miserable in his day job. When Bobby tells Scott the idea for his new scrip... Read More
Directed By:Jonathan Blitstein
Written By:Jonathan Blitstein
Let Them Chirp Awhile
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That Blitstein pulls off this tiredly self-reflexive conceit with relative panache is due in no small part to the scruffy grace of leads Justin Rice ("Mutual Appreciation") and indie fixture Brendon Sexton III.
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It's lively and funny, if unbalanced.
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The NYU film grad steals liberally from Woody (especially "Annie Hall") - from camera placement to body language to plot twists to the whole Ingmar Bergman thing. That's not necessarily bad, if the project works. This one doesn't - it just annoys.
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A movie where the only conception of life seems to come from other movies makes for no kind of movie at all.
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This sort of thing was indulgent enough the first time around; transplanted to the mumblecore milieu, it's intolerable.
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Production Company:
- Let Them Chirp Awhile
- Jonathan Blitstein Enterprises
Release Date:Dec 5, 2008
Duration:1 h 31 m
Awards
East Lansing Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
