Kaley Wheless places Frances, a substitute teacher in a small town. She is in a rather dull marriage and her male students find her attractive. She starts to have an affair with one of her students and it gets out and she is arrested.
The film is sort of a bio film on Frances as she goes about her daily business, however nothing particularly interesting or even slightly entertaining happens throughout. We see her spending the day with her mother , going shopping with her husband, going to therapy and there is nothing memorable about any of it. The whole thing comes off as if the filmmakers did not want to make the laughs obvious and that is where the movie succeeds. The humor will not be obvious to ANYBODY. For some reason the movie has wall to wall narration by Nick Offerman and quite frankly, it doesn't help. Offerman's typically dry narration feels like a last inning attempt to drain some kind of laughs out of this dull material.
This is the kind of film people pretend to love as if their sense of humor is just so sophisticated that only simple people wouldn't find it funny, yeah well good. Do yourself a favor and pass on this one.
Pass on this one.
The film is sort of a bio film on Frances as she goes about her daily business, however nothing particularly interesting or even slightly entertaining happens throughout. We see her spending the day with her mother , going shopping with her husband, going to therapy and there is nothing memorable about any of it. The whole thing comes off as if the filmmakers did not want to make the laughs obvious and that is where the movie succeeds. The humor will not be obvious to ANYBODY. For some reason the movie has wall to wall narration by Nick Offerman and quite frankly, it doesn't help. Offerman's typically dry narration feels like a last inning attempt to drain some kind of laughs out of this dull material.
This is the kind of film people pretend to love as if their sense of humor is just so sophisticated that only simple people wouldn't find it funny, yeah well good. Do yourself a favor and pass on this one.
Pass on this one.