Sentences with phrase «comedy about abortion»
«Obvious Child» is as honest, unadorned and quietly hopeful a romantic comedy about abortion as you'll likely ever see.
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Both sat down with us recently in Chicago to discuss Sundance, history, expectations, snarfing, and how they feel about their film being labelled the first «Abortion Comedy.»
And yet, I have the feeling this modest little 83 - minute comedy will reverberate like a gunshot in our national conversation about abortion — in part because of the casually irreverent aplomb with which Robespierre approaches this tinderboxiest of topics.
Part Coen brothers and part James L. Brooks, Alexander Payne makes comedies about serious stuff like abortion and midlife crises.
Here's a movie with an impossible setup — a romantic comedy about a woman who decides to get an abortion — that works brilliantly thanks to tactful, confident direction by Gillian Robespierre and a fearless performance from Jenny Slate.
A story about millennial maturity told through an abortion comedy, Obvious Child «s blatant irreverancy was all the rage, making her an overnight name in many in - the - know film appreciation circles.
Lily Tomlin's welcome return to a starring film role for the first time since the 1980s comes via this acerbic comedy about a snappish senior poet (Tomlin) whose hapless granddaughter (Julia Garner) needs an abortion.
Debut writer - director Gillian Robespierre springs an early surprise with Obvious Child, a screwball comedy that clears the decks for a breakout performance from Jenny Slate as Donna, an oversharing stand - up comic who will joke about everything from the stains on her pants to the abortion she has booked for the following day.
The last we heard from the twosome of director Gillian Robespierre and her star / BFF Jenny Slate was with «Obvious Child» (2014), an endearingly sloppy indie comedy about a girl, her family, her friends, and her abortion.
The film has been generating substantial buzz as a completely different kind of movie — a funny, edgy, hip romantic comedy... about abortion.