This Is My Year

This movie is awesome, reminds me of my LA experience- and there's a great Sum 41 joke, which not many movies can say

This is a movie that could so easily be dismissed in the flotsam that washes up on Amazon Prime, but that would be an unfair dismissal. What could so easily have been an exploitative and airheaded account of a pretty actress's year of breaking into Hollywood, is a surprisingly tough and deep look at the price of fame in a highly competitive industry, but one that retain a light touch.

The leads are excellent and even the supporting cast well fleshed out. The arrival of RJ Haynes as the midpoint character, the lead's slacker older brother, is particularly welcome in providing a warm and comic injection. I especially liked the subplot of the famous actress and her downward arc as presented on the E!-Like Hollywood gossip channel that the characters watch throughout the movie.

I understand the one location used for the film is the director's apartment. This sums up the shoestring budget but the filmmakers really impress in injecting the film with so much spirit and interest that I didn't really mind the limitations of the budget at all. The film felt real in a way many higher budget films don't.

All in all, a really refreshing and thoughtful comedy about Hollywood entryism.

I decided to pop this on because the lead looked hot - Yes, I was hook, line and sinkered.

Beauty distorts, and it is like one of those girls that you meet who you are instantly attracted to, but after a few weeks of dating, you realise that there's nothing much else there.

Actors are a dime a dozen - good actors are hard to come by (I know) - this film is the result of good looking and affable people who confuse acting with flirting with a guy with a camera.

In fact, I'm going to stop the review here because it would be totally unfair to go on - as I could only last a painful 17 minutes. I mean... I was totally stunned...

Sorry, but this is hands-down, the worst film I've seen THIS YEAR and the two stars is down to the skill (or stupidity) of being able to drag this out for 97 minutes... As I say, at 17m, I was looking at the time left and when I saw 80 minutes, my brain nearly fell out of my ear.

Stop with the fake shill reviews please - everyone is onto you!

It was really very enjoyable. It shows what I can imagine being a very difficult and scary time for someone moving to LA and trying so hard to succeed. The comedy mixed in nicely with the story. RandP

Its a strange film about a girl in an apartment, and thats that. its a 1 location movie,a lot of existential strive,discussions,sex and talk. it never reahes anything interesting, just a boring year in l.a..its a terrible lack of story that does not satisfy an old grumpy man like me.

i cannot give 1 to this film,because the craftmanship of making a low budget movie with such technical quality deserves more,so i give it 3