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Addicted to Fresno

Country: USA, Language: English, 85 mins

Original Title

Addicted to Fresno
  • Director: Jamie Babbit
  • Writer: Karey Dornetto
  • Producer: Dan Cogan; Geralyn White Dreyfous

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Ouch - that was painful.

Misguided and ill-judged are two words that spring to immediately mind.

This was seen at a press screening - not one laugh was heard, not one titter - instead, the unsuppressed shuffling of journalists leaving the cinema...in their droves.

Even the solid cast could not raise this above the grottiest of gutters.

Karey Dornetto's writing is a depraved shambles, failing to cement itself in either slapstick or the absurd - it's just plain noxious - what is funny about consensual sex made out to be a rape? I'm registered sex offender - hysterical, not!

Directorially, it's time Jamie Babbit gave her filmmaking career a well-deserved rest...the film is stuffed full of the gimmicks that film-school drop-outs usually blame for their premature expulsion.

But...her biggest mistake: the inability to recognise a half-decent script. A problem that has persisted throughout her unremarkable career.

Poor Fresno - undeserving of such malignant publicity.


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The(ir) Blurb...

This comedy tells the story of two sisters, a lesbian and a sex-addict, who work as maids at a hotel in a small town named Fresno. Their lives change when one of the sisters thinks that they might have accidentally killed a man.

Cast & Characters

Judy Greer as Shannon;
Aubrey Plaza;
Natasha Lyonne as Martha;
Clea DuVall;
Ron Livingston as Edwin;
Allison Tolman as Ruby;
Fred Armisen as Gerald;
Molly Shannon as Margaret;
Jessica St. Clair as Kristen;
Maria Olsen as Softball Player