Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaAfter a loved one falls ill, 25 year old struggling comedian Emily Martin returns to her college town of Austin, Texas and must come to terms with her past while staying with her ex-boyfrien... Ler tudoAfter a loved one falls ill, 25 year old struggling comedian Emily Martin returns to her college town of Austin, Texas and must come to terms with her past while staying with her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.After a loved one falls ill, 25 year old struggling comedian Emily Martin returns to her college town of Austin, Texas and must come to terms with her past while staying with her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.
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- 5 vitórias e 4 indicações no total
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But it's cute, refreshing, real, and it delivers some good insights a lot of people may need to grow as a person.
May appeal to women more than men, despite lots of nudity.
If you go in with reasonable expectations there's a good chance you'll like this one.
Grade: A-
Indie movies used to be an alternative to Hollywood in that they would show you characters and situations that were something you wouldn't ordinarily see at the multiplex. Somewhere along the line that difference became a cliche. If you want to see something different, it doesn't help that you already know what that difference is going to be. Where's the surprise? Where's the challenge?
"Mr. Roosevelt" being an indie comedy means you can expect a lot of weird, off-hand lines of dialogue like "I forget what funny is", and nudity which, in a Hollywood movie, is usually a device to titillate audiences, but here just seems added to up the weird factor.
It's not unusual to see an unconventional lead in an indie flick, but I think Noel Wells doesn't really have star quality. Having written and directed the movie herself, of course she also cast herself in the lead role, but they can't all be Lake Bell (from "In a World") or even Lena Dunham ("Tiny Furniture"). The camera doesn't exactly love her. While watching the movie I found myself forgetting what she looked like occasionally, which is funny since she is in every scene.
The movie does have a few funny moments, though not many.
The plot concerns a struggling comedian who comes back to her hometown to say fairwell to her cat, the titular Mr. Roosevelt, as her ex-boyfriend and his new squeeze must have the cat put down.
The stage is obviously set for a "young person faces their past and confronts their issues" sort of movie, but here's the problem: I never believed that this character had a past, there or anywhere else, and I never believed that she cared about her cat enough to go all that way, or anything else. You can understand she might feel toward her ex's new lover, but the movie doesn't deal with them head-on, making her own feelings and motivations opaque, and making the character more distant than she ought to be.
Você sabia?
- CuriosidadesDaniella Pineda's only career nude scenes, as of July 2025.
- Erros de gravaçãoWhile Emily is talking to her boss on a silver Iphone by the lake, when it cuts back to her, it has changed to a broken Iphone for when she throws it.
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Emily Martin: Jen, am I a bad person?
Jen Morales: No. There's no way in hell you're a bad person. You're a good person... with really bad execution.
- Trilhas sonorasFlamingo
Written by Eric D. Johnson
Performed by The Fruit Bats
Courtesy of Sub Pop Records
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- Tempo de duração1 hora 30 minutos
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- 1.85 : 1