Jack and I loved this dark comedy in which Patton Oswalt plays Chuck, a compulsive lying dad who, blocked on social media by his depressed grown son Franklin, catfishes him, pretending to be a beautiful waitress. James Morosini stars as Franklin and directs from his own well-paced screenplay. The movie begins by telling us that it actually happened but that Morosini's dad asked him to tell the audience it did not.
Claudia Sulewski is the lovely and kind waitress, Amy Landecker is Franklin's mom, Lil Rel Howery is Chuck's friend, and Rachel Dratch is Chuck's girlfriend, attractive and sexy for a change of pace for Dratch.
As I write I'm streaming the nice music by Jeremy Bullock on Apple Music.
The movie won both the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at South by Southwest Film Festival earlier this year, with more nominations and wins to come, no doubt.
Oswalt was last blogged for Sorry to Bother You, Landecker for Beatriz at Dinner (during the shooting of her 42 episodes of Transparent), Howery for Luck, and Dratch for Plan B.
Morosini directed and co-wrote one other feature and has a lot of acting credits. Sulewski and Bullock are are new to me though not to acting and composing, respectively. I heard Sulewski say in an interview that her photo has been used by catfishers in real life.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics are only in like, with a 70% average, but its audiences are more affectionate with 83. We rented it on Apple TV/iTunes on August 17.
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