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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2023.07.12

This is a fun movie about a shlep whose fiance isn't close with her parents. They turn up as the wedding is approaching and it turns out they're very cool sixty-somethings - fit and leather-clad. The main shlep is a bank manager and his bank is promptly robbed by a couple who are fit and interestingly leather-clad. Things develop from there and we're all soon united against the big bad - a curiously young woman who has supposedly been blackmailing/threatening the shlep's fiance since she was just a girl.

It's all rather a bit of a mess, far too transparent and telegraphed, and the lead shlep is too annoying for the role. But it was fun seeing Ellen Barken and Julie Hagerty again. Also, I note that the lead in this thing came off quite a bit better than in "Jexi" despite effectively playing the same character.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

—Anton Chekhov