I should probably start this review with the fact that I love Kristen Wiig. She is just an amazing actress and this film is no exception to her talent.
The film has great performances, a brilliant and funny storyline and great characters. After Imogene, played by Wiig, gets dumped by her high-society boyfriend, and then also loses her job as she crashes into despair, Imogene fakes a suicide bid to try and win back her boyfriend. This goes wrong when her friend (using the word loosely!) comes instead and her mother is called instead and comes to get her and take her home.
Her relationship with her mother is strained at best. Hilarity ensues. This is a great film, and I love Annette Bening as the mother who does her best, even when it is getting her daughter arrested for borrowing her car because her CIA lover (Matt Dillon on top form) tells her that the best way to find a person is to accuse them of a crime. This is a great romantic comedy with a twist, but also a great comedy about family.
Girl Most Likely is a smart and funny romantic comedy starring Wiig as Imogene, a once promising New York playwright whose meteoric rise has fizzled out, thanks to a crisis of confidence. Also heavily in denial about being dumped by her high society boyfriend, Imogene uses her flair for drama to stage an elaborate meltdown as an appeal for his sympathy. But her attempt backfires when she’s put into the custody of Zelda, her estranged gambling addict mother (Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right) in Jersey Shore.
Desperate to get back on top, Imogene will need the help of her family, including her slightly odd younger brother (Christopher Fitzgerald, Revolutionary Road), Zelda’s new boyfriend The Bousche (Matt Dillon, You, Me and Dupree), and the hot new lodger (Darren Criss, Glee). Things can only go up from here, and they do in this wildly quirky rom-com about family, life and love.
Starring Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids, Anchorman 2, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right), Matt Dillon (Me, You and Dupree, There’s Something About Mary), Darren Criss (TV’s Glee) and Christopher Fitzgerald (Revolutionary Road),
Girl Most Likely can be bought here
GIRL MOST LIKELY… DVD/BD Information:
Release: 3rd Feb 2014
Number of discs: 1
RRP: £17.99/£21.99
Certificate: 12
Sound: Dolby Digital Surround 5.1
Running time: 99/103 Minutes Approx.
