
Marilyn Saunders finds herself in dire financial difficulties. To remedy the situation, she and her friends form a company providing "Party Girls" to those requiring the services of scantily-clad women. Marilyn's male partner is madly in love with her, but she only has eyes for a rich investor. The party girls work at playing matchmaker, while an apartment full of guys and a slumber party full of women watch the events unfold on video, just as we do, in an interesting bit of meta-fiction.
"Be good. It doesn’t mean you can’t be tough. It doesn’t mean you always have to be nice. Just be good."
These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.
You can have the best filmmaker and cast in the world, but if the script is lacking, you’re in a troublesome state. Such is the case with Gemini Man, a film full of tremendous artists.
This Japanese Anime movie is about Kanna, a young girl who sets on a quest across Japan to discover her true identity.
Swapped combines comedy, adventure and emotional growth while delivering one of the biggest plot twists in animation history.