By Morris Dean
Oh, why not? When I was keeping up my list of movies most recently watched, I listed "unwatchably bad or otherwise offputting" movies with the UBOO rating. Why not review an UBOO movie?
Well, actually, there's a probably good reason. What if the film, if one had not been "otherwise put off" and had been able to finish watching it, had turned out not to be so bad after all? It was one thing to simply list a film as being one I couldn't finish watching (or chose not to finish), it could be quite another thing to presume to review the film.
So I won't review the 2012 film, People Like Us, directed by Alex Kurzman and starring the wonderful Elizabeth Banks (one of the smartest actresses around), Chris Pine, and boy actor Michael Hall D'Addario.
Here's the Internet Movie Database's synopsis:
While settling his recently deceased father's estate, a salesman (Chris Pine) discovers he has a sister (Elizabeth Banks) whom he never knew about, leading both siblings to re-examine their perceptions about family and life choices.In other words, that nice family photo on the poster does not portray a nuclear family, and this is not a romantic comedy, never mind that it features in the Michael Hall D'Addario character one of those ubiquitous cute child geniuses....
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