Desk Clerk

This is the life and times of a desk worker at a hotel, obviously written by and starring a desk clerk or (I hope) former desk clerk, Michelle Bowser.

It's amateur, so don't be expecting highfallutin' production values or a perfectly polished script, but sometimes amateur is a good thing -- it means she's saying what she wants to say, with no studio executives telling her what *not* to say.

Desk Clerk is frantic and funny all the way through, and had me smiling for an hour and a half, as Michelle deals with demanding, flirty, and insistent customers, laundry room refunds, a malfunctioning computer, disinterested non-help from IT's 800 number, and everything else that can go wrong in a hotel overnight.

The acting is not going to be Oscar-nominated, and the movie isn't quite as funny as it thinks it is, but it *is* funny, and makes me glad I've never been a desk clerk.

Is the alternative title to this diy project of narssissistic unconventional and incoherence at all levels. Its fun to make a movie is the great moto of this film and actor environment in the u.s. Midwest, ive seen many of the faces before, and the acts just as bad as ever. Productionwise its on junior high mediastudent level, bad light, sound, and esp. The editing of the story, combined with a filmographic motion in motion and weird angles, and lots of abandoned retakes to avoid eyes in the camera etc.

But the story is simple, a woman goes to therapy due to her chaotic world in a highway motel, laying on the sofa with a listening quack taking notes, is the contextual hub for the film and story. The main female actor has got some talents to develope from, but falls through due to far too much body and facial movement.

So a load of loose strained skits of bad acting, that combined with lazy direction and empty wallet makes this a film for the bin, or you can do it the alternative way and use the ffwd button at 3.0 or 4.0, then it hits the targets of the genre called comedy, the grumpy old man did, to save some time of my life.