Barbie Ferreira is wonderful as Lily, French Stewart is so good that I absolutely hated him as her dad, and John Leguizamo is warm as the other Bob Trevino. Strong support comes from Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer, who is in a wheelchair with ALS, as Lily's employer.
Some of the score by Jacques Brautbar is on his site, and Apple Music has a playlist of songs featured in the movie.
This got on my radar because I met two of its 35 producers last year at a baseball game. One of them said, "You'll laugh, you'll cry," and he was right! The other explained to me today that Laymon's mentor is special effects manager Bob Trevino, and she decided to name the character after him, rather than her own father Bob Laymon.
35 producers ties the movie for ninth on the Producers Plethora Prize list. All the filmmakers have earned many wins and nominations, including the Grand Jury and Audience awards from the SXSW Film Festival.
Leguizamo was last blogged for The Menu. This is Laymon's feature debut after a handful of shorts and TV series. Ferreira has been in three other features and more. I know Stewart best for 139 episodes of 3rd Rock from the Sun and 37 of Mom, among his dozens and dozens of credits. I didn't see Spencer's other movie but I did see her in 15 episodes of The Sex Lives of College Girls. Brautbar is new to me, despite his 73 credits as composer.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences heart <3 it, averaging 94 and 98%, respectively. We rented it on June 15.
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