I loved this sweet documentary about Will Ferrell's celebrating his long time friend Harper Steele's recent transition from man to woman with a road trip. They met in 1995 when the former Andrew Steele was a writer at Saturday Night Live, starting the same day as Ferrell. Steele went on to work there for decades, winning one Emmy with several other nominations. Chock full of cameos by fellow SNL alums, archival clips, and plenty of public encounters with strangers, the picture is moving and, of course, has laughs befitting the comedic talents of all involved.
Director Josh Greenbaum and editor Monique Zavistovski keep the pace going with music by Nathan Halpern. I can't seem to find any of Halpern's original score online, but Apple Music has a playlist of 24 songs from the movie.
Ferrell was last blogged for Quiz Lady, Steele for co-writing Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga with Ferrell, Greenbaum for Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar, Zavistovski for Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins, and Halpern for Emily the Criminal.
Rotten Tomatoes critics are proud supporters, averaging 99%, and its audiences are allies at 81. I downloaded it from Netflix to watch on a plane on September 22.
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