I enjoyed this cringey story of an unlikeable young woman dealing with the scandals she has willfully caused. Kaley Wheless stars in the title role and she co-wrote the story with director Bob Byington. Scott King gets screenplay credit.
The dulcet tones of Nick Offerman provide narration and the cast includes Martin Starr and David Krumholtz. The movie earned a few festival wins and nominations.
There's no online streaming for the soundtrack by Chris Baio from Vampire Weekend and a band called Burgess Meredith. When I watched this, the same day as Mary Goes Round, I wrote down "Jenny Parrott song at end." I can't find that online either, though I learned that Jenny Parrott is a singer-songwriter now recovering from a severe bout of COVID.
Offerman was last blogged for Hearts Beat Loud and Starr for Spider-Man: Far from Home. This is the second feature for Wheless who, by the way, wears her own high school cheerleading uniform in one awkward scene. Byington has a handful of other credits and King has one. Krumholtz first came to my attention in The Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) and Liberty Heights (1999). My favorite line from Liberty Heights was when his character Yussel, a poor Jewish teenager, looks around the home of a wealthy WASP family. He sees the Persian rugs and says something like, "What? Area rugs? They couldn't afford wall-to-wall?" Krumholtz' TV credits include 119 episodes of Numb3rs, 22 of The Deuce, seven of The Good Wife and five of Mom.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics liked it less than I did, averaging 78% and its audiences less than that at 63.
As of this writing you can rent it on Amazon Prime for 99¢.
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