Losing Control

I have been doing research for 20 years and I am glad someone made a satire on the Ph. D. life. It is filled with examples of Ph. D. life. My husband and I both found it very funny.

Losing Control was a fun-filled romantic adventure that delves into the goals and desires of a talented, eccentric, and endearing scientist who experiments with love! The characters capture the universal realities of all our extended families…the movie will capture your heart.

The movie is well written, witty, and has real multi-faceted characters that we all know and love. It takes place in Boston as a Harvard scientist grapples with furthering her professional career versus taking the leap of faith that love requires of us all. In this process, she sends both herself and her beau through a soul search that helps them find out who they each are.

The movie presents comic relief with the funny Jewish parents, the moonlighting co-worker, and the string of romantic misfits that enter the story as well.

See this movie for sure...You will not be sorry!

When I go to see a comedy, I'm usually satisfied if I get a good two or three hearty laughs. This one gave me one or two chuckles, no full laughs, and an awful lot of groans.

The actors did a decent job with what they were given. The plot started out well enough, but soon devolved in a series of tenuously connected scenes, many completely absurd. However, not absurd enough to be a good farce.

I'm not one to shy away from expletives, particularly in a good action movie, but the gratuitous expletives in this movie were really distracting, inappropriate, and out of character. I'm not sure if that was due to the script or direction or both. Either way, not good.

So basically, bad writing, bad direction, okay acting. May or may not be a waste of time, depending on your mindset.

I saw Losing Control in a special screening and loved it. Very funny. Very entertaining. Miranda Kent is adorable in a young Amy Adams sort of way - and reason enough to see the movie all on her own. As an engineer I could really appreciate the scientific approach to love and romance. It gave the film a fresh take on the romantic comedy genre - which is hard to find. And all the little things were great too, like the music and opening sequence was very clever. An impressive first feature film from Valerie Weiss. I expect this will launch Valerie to the next level in her career. If you like witty, well-written comedies then do yourself a favor and see this movie!

This being the director's first full length film, I was concerned about the quality. I shouldn't have been. Great acting, fun plot and wonderful characters. I enjoyed it from beginning to end!

The only thing I would have liked to see was more of the main male character. Very handsome and sexy but there were basically no bod shots of him.

I also appreciated the Jewish humor and small little details added to the film. I'd probably watch it again just to explore some of the details further.

Hopefully this film will get a broader release. I saw it at a special showing. Don't miss this little jewel.