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Addicted to Fresno
- Director: Jamie Babbit
- Writer: Karey Dornetto
- Producer: Dan Cogan; Geralyn White Dreyfous
CGiii Comment
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.
Trailer...
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