Saw, with fave teen, at the Grandview, in St. Paul, the ridiculous but enjoyable Long Shot, starring Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron. I don't want to give away the plot, but the practice of manipulating one's own parts to obtain gratification within the sexual sphere of human experience plays a larger role in Long Shot than in many motion pictures, and, considering my company, I did my best in these scenes to maintain an attitude of sophisticated equanimity while teen laughed I thought rather too hard. I really should start paying more attention to these ratings: R for Long Shot, which, thinking about it now, seems as we say ironic inasmuch as a mature audience might be the one best equipped to resist the humor, or "humor."
Since it's a rom-com, there is the general situation where you want the principals to be a couple, but there is an obstacle, which about 93% of the way to the end has never been higher, but then it suddenly and dramatically falls away when, in this case, the political candidate played by Theron goes off script at a speaking event and says what she and right-minded people everywhere believe, even though we're also supposed to believe that it's political suicide to say it. Turns out, it isn't: the magic of movies!
I believe that was Lisa Kudrow in a cameo as a campaign consultant. Probably needed the payday.
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