Successfully breaking out from her Saturday Night Live beginnings with Bridesmaids, comedic actress Kristen Wiig has been lining up promising, major roles since then, including the currently shooting Anchorman: The Legend Continues, which will see a release this fall next to her collaboration with Ben Stiller, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. We’ve now got a look at another film featuring the actress, one that premiered on the fall festival circuit.
From American Splendor directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, the first trailer for Girl Most Likely (formerly titled Imogene) has landed today, and while its clearly an early sales look, the results don’t seem too promising. Scattered and tonally all over the place, it seems to match up with our negative review, which says, “all the quirk adds up to nothing; passable gags that fade away three seconds later” and the film “fails because the human pain at its center never co-exists with the comedy.” Check it out below for the film also starring Annette Bening, Matt Dillon and Darren Criss.
Synopsis:
Former American President Calvin Coolidge once postulated that his country’s most common commodity is unrealized potential. Few of us can claim not to possess it, but it takes a special sort of underachiever to match the feats of Imogene (Kristen Wiig), a playwright once thought to be destined for greatness, but who has spent most of her twenties and thirties frittering away her talent and opportunities. As Imogene begins, she’s just about hit bottom, having staged a suicide attempt in a desperate bid to hold on to her philandering boyfriend — it’s about the only thing she’s staged in a very long time. And it’s not a hit.
Things can only go up from here, and they do in this wildly quirky and weirdly optimistic comic character study. After her fake suicide attempt, Imogene is remanded to the custody of her mother (Annette Bening), a blowsy, overbearing gambling addict with a friendly but somewhat seedy goof of a boyfriend (Matt Dillon) who claims to be working for the CIA. This unexpected homecoming forces Imogene to confront her lingering feelings about her long-dead father, but it also finds her developing a surprising intimacy with her mother’s lodger, the much-younger Lee (Darren Criss), a singer currently exhibiting his talents in a Backstreet Boys cover band. Lee would seem anything but substantial on the surface, yet his sincerity and intelligence is arresting, and he may be just what the doctor ordered for our recovering heroine.
Girl Most Likely will arrive on July 19th, 2013.