![]() ![]() Recently, sites such as Kickstarter and GoFundMe provided a platform, but the most companies could offer in exchange for a cash investment was a first look to the particualr product or other creative reward, each of which, however was not stock. I’m Totally Fine will be in Theaters, On Demand and Digital on November 4, 2022.Traditionally, aspiring entrepreneurs looking for easy, low cost access to capital to fund their start-up businesses had limited means. You just never know when things might end. ![]() You may feel the plot ends all too quickly, just as you’re really enjoying it…but that’s kind of the whole point, I suppose. Maybe my take on this picture was influenced by my own more distant loss on the day I saw it, but I’m Totally Fine is something special. Vanessa is given a bizarre gift, but, surprisingly, so is “Jennifer.” We all deal with grief in different ways but since one of the few constants in life is death, one of the most important things for us to do is to always remember…and celebrate those we lose. Natalie Morales and Jillian Bell create two characters here that you believe in and then give us just enough unreality to show the true realities of dealing with grief. The woman playing the party planner and the guy acting the DJ are wonderfully amusing. A number of the actors come from improv backgrounds. It looks like most of the performers and even many of the behind-the-scenes folks have ties to each other from various other films or series. I wasn’t thrilled with the touting of a particularly dangerous drug but, in context, it doesn’t detract much from the scene. The comedy is mostly gentle throughout, with some particular goofiness served up in scenes of a party Vanessa tries to cancel, failing every step of the way to do so. Little by little, though, unbeknownst to either character at first, “Jen” starts to take on some aspects of being human, of being Jennifer, and what follows is an unexpected bonding that goes to some pretty unexpected places. As she slowly comes around to the fact that this isn’t just grief causing hallucinations, the realization hits that in a weird way, she gets to spend two more days with her lost loved one. Her quirky readings reminded me of Jeff Bridges’ similarly eccentric performance as an alien in the hit Starman back in the ‘80s.ĭispatched to Earth to observe/test a human woman for exactly 48 hours, the fact that the visitor Vanessa discovers in her kitchen looks exactly like-and has all the memories of-the friend and business partner she just buried quite naturally freaks her out, as well it should. Morales’ line delivery at first seems terrible, which, in context, makes it oddly perfect. We never learn her character’s real name as she has assumed the likeness and memories of Vanessa’s just-deceased friend, Jennifer. It’s a sad feelgood movie about loss, memories, and friendship. I’m Totally Fine is, from beginning to end, a movie about grief. Here, in a film where both of the women are listed as producers, they get to do both. They’re both quite good whether doing comedy or drama. I’ve read up on them since and watched some earlier clips on YouTube. Those two persons are actresses Jillian Bell and Natalie Morales, neither of whom I was familiar with going in. Well, it actually is pretty much just a two-person show with all of the other actors just passing through the plot. I’m Totally Fine is clearly not a big-budget film and really isn’t that far from being just a two-person show. Oh, did I mention this movie is a comedy? With a science fiction twist, yet! In the movie, I’m Totally Fine, the friends were much closer, and the opening scenes depict the surviving friend’s grief in some of the most realistic scenes of such that I have ever seen in a movie. We weren’t close friends, but I had known her off and on for decades. In a weird bit of synchronicity, a friend of mine died suddenly today as well. It’s about a woman whose BFF dies suddenly. I was sent a new indie movie to review this evening. ![]()
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