The Gist:
In Los Angeles, Studio City to be specific, two men who both work in the “Industry” (i.e., “Hollywood”), prepare to throw their baby daughter a birthday party. Because they live wacky hijink filled lives, the party will be swamped with wacky relatives, crazy friends, clowns, and a documentary film crew.
Comments:
The conceit of the movie is that it is a documentary about two gay men and their family as they prepare to throw a birthday party for their baby daughter. What this means is we as viewer get treated to a series of fast comedic skits, all apparently improvised rather than tightly scripted. Unfortunately the quality of the skits/scenes vary from okay to meh to boring.
The movie almost works when it doesn’t forcefully try to be funny, focusing instead on "honest" moments between the couple and daughter. Too bad that rather slim core of almost good is surrounded by numerous scenes of uninteresting “Industry” jokes and people aiming for wacky but hitting boring instead.
The movie is a sequel to a short film Groom's Cake (which I haven't seen and have no comments about).
Women:
Yes
People of color:
Some
Gratuitous nudity:
No
- Director: Chad Darnell
- Writer: Chad Darnell
- Actors: Chad Darnell, Rib Hillis
- 85 min
- IMDB
