Van Flesher's rueful romantic comedy, based on Zack Ordynans' semiautobiographical screenplay and buttressed by a hipster soundtrack, pays backhanded homage to Woody Allen via the travails of college loser Max (Gary Lundy), who fears that years of wallowing in ANNIE HALL have permanently poisoned his love life.
Max, the kind of smarty-pants who unloads his insecurities on his confessional college radio show and then freaks out at the thought that someone might be listening, was "force-fed Woody Allen from a young age" by his Allen-loving parents. He fully absorbed its cynical pessimism and navel-gazing angst before even reaching the age of consent. He and ro...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
95 mins