Good Posture (2019)

Directed by Dolly Wells · Drama, Comedy

Starring Grace Van Patten, Emily Mortimer, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Nat Wolff, Condola Rashad, Norbert Leo Butz, Mary Holland, John Early, Timm Sharp, Gary Richardson, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Ames, Martin Amis, Mischa Richter, Charlotte Abbott, Emmanuelle Martin

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With her widower father currently living it up in Paris with a young, new girlfriend, Lilian has been placed into the care of family friends over in Brooklyn, New York. Under the roof of famed author, Julia Price, Lilian has no real motivation to live any other lifestyle than that of her hermit housemate. To impress her ex-boyfriend, and the other cynics around her, Lilian suddenly decides to make a documentary on Julia - albeit, an unauthorized one - with the help of some new people in her life.

My review · Reviewed 11/20/2020

This movie is a classic example of the part being better than the whole. Grace Van Patten is a budding star and she does a great job carrying this movie. But you've got freaking Emily Mortimer in your movie and you can't find a way to get her more than one meaningful scene? It makes it all the more maddening when the ending asks us to think that the events of the movie have changed both of them when we only ever got to know one character.

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