Best Sellers

Best Sellers is a great feel-good movie and a fitting ending to a legendary career. The film follows Aubrey Plaza, who is a young struggling publisher. In order to save her company, she seeks outs Michael Caine, a cranky, retired author who is still under contract. Supposedly this is going to be Sr. Michael Caine's final film, and while anything is possible, it certainly feels likes the end of an era. And while this probably won't go down as his greatest movie, he still gives an amazing and emotional performance. Aubrey Plaza, who I feel like you never know what you are going to get from her, also does a fantastic job with what she is given to work with. ITs not a perfect film, but the two main actors have great chemistry, and they really make you care about the characters. I would give it a watch for Michael Caine alone.

Lucy Stanbridge (Aubrey Plaza) is struggling to maintain her book publishing father's legacy. Her books are being skewered by critics and Jack Sinclair (Scott Speedman) is trying to buy her out. She and her assistant Rachel Spence (Ellen Wong) discover an old contract with legendary writer Harris Shaw (Michael Caine). Harris wrote a groundbreaking blockbuster with her father but nothing more. In the contract, he owes the company one more book and she forces the sickly drunken writer to do a book tour.

The first half is trying to be a slightly comedic road trip with Plaza doing Plaza. It's a bit uneven and clunky. It's not until Aubrey throws up into the bowl that the movie finds its heart. The second half is much better for it. I'm not sure if this is a realistic book publishing world but at least, the movie is trying. One does need to stick with this movie for awhile before it gets good.

Its a sweet movie full of charm and humour that was a delight to watch.

Pretty predictable but it takes nothing away from the enjoyment :)

I have just finished watching this movie, and anything with Michael Caine in his winter years is worth seeing, his characters played over the decades has appealed to audiences across generations.

I didn't honestly feel this was time lost and enjoyed his latest performance, and all the character actors in the movie didn't disappoint,there have been several publisher movies over the past decades,with different themes,with the American ideal, all about the bucks, this particular work had that varnish sprinkled with pathos and humor.

Michael Caine makes it all seem so natural and beautiful. And Plaza is like the cherry on top, she's always at her best.