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Meet Bill
Original Title
Bill...aka: Starting Over- Director: Bernie Goldmann; Melisa Wallack
- Writer: Melisa Wallack
- Producer: Aaron Eckhart; John Penotti
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Is this what happens when a producer gets married and his wife demands to make a movie?
In an attempt to elevate this from the chronically bland, a gay brother is introduced...but, it raises it nowhere.
Obviously, American Beauty was the inspiration behind Bill - but, some kind of huge blockage must have occurred between the brain and the hand when Wallack, misguidedly, committed this to paper - instantly forgettable.
Forgotten.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Bill is unhappy: he has married a banker's daughter and has a dead end job at the bank; his wife Jess is tied to daddy's wallet; and, Bill is developing a gut from lack of exercise and constantly eating candy bars. He dreams of buying a donut franchise to be independent of Jess's dad. Bill is roped into a mentoring program at his old prep school, assigned a smart-mouthed kid who pops up when least expected. When Jess starts an affair with Chip, a local TV personality and vain Rob Lowe look-alike, it sends Bill, the kid, and a young sales clerk from a lingerie shop on a quest to win back Jess and get the donuts. What about self-respect?
Cast & Characters
Aaron Eckhart as Bill;
Jessica Alba as Lucy;
Elizabeth Banks as Jess;
Logan Lerman as The Kid;
Holmes Osborne as Mr. Jacoby;
Todd Louiso as John Jr.;
Timothy Olyphant as Chip;
Reed Diamond as Paul;
Kristen Wiig as Jane Whittman;
Jason Sudeikis as Jim Whittman;
Andy Zou as Donald Choo;
Ana Lucasey as Sarah Sheldon;
Constance Barron as Mrs. Jacoby;
Conor O'Farrell as Principal;
Julia Pace Mitchell as Dana