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in the story might have served everybody better. CRated R for language and brief violence. Directed by John Crowley with a screenplay by Steven Knight, Closed Circuit is an hour and 36 minutes long and distributed by Focus Features.
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High school seniors strike up a romance just as their lives begin to change in The Spectacular Now, a bittersweet dramady.
Sutter Keely (Miles Teller) is a popular high school senior. But he’s popular in that particular way that allows him to be charming and fun in any situation, the life of any party, but still rather alone in life, especially once his girlfriend, Cassidy (Brie Larson), breaks up with him. She, as we come to realize, likes him immensely but needs life to point more toward the future. With a spiked soda always in hand and a “whatever” attitude, Sutter cares only about the present. In fact, he seems desperately focused on making the present excellent and ignoring any talk of the future — whether he’s consciously blowing off a college essay or cheerfully rejecting a teacher’s attempts to help him graduate. After a night of drunkenness, he wakes up in someone’s yard with Aimee (Shailene Woodley) standing over him. Even though she’s also a senior at his high school, he doesn’t know her. She’s working a paper route for her mom when they meet — she’s that kind of girl. She’s also smart, reads sci-fi and fantasy, draws characters from her favorite graphic novels, doesn’t tend to go to parties and doesn’t have an ex-boyfriend. She’s different from Sutter’s usual kind of girl and he approaches her partly as an object of fascination and partly as something to take his mind off his feelings for Cassidy, who has found a new boyfriend in Marcus (Dave Okeniyi), the very respon-
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sible class president/football star/complete opposite of Sutter. For Aimee, Sutter is a bit of rebellion and her first taste of the wild side of teenage life. As the constant drinking would suggest, Sutter’s problems aren’t just girlfriendrelated. He has a strained relationship with his mom (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and blames her for the break-up with his dad (Kyle Chandler), whom he hasn’t seen in years. But he has at least two other potential father-figure types pulling for him: his concerned teacher (Andre Royo) and his boss (Bob Odenkirk) at the men’s clothing store where he works. The Spectacular Now has some minor flaws, most of which come from a level of self-awareness in its teenage characters that seems to be a little too advanced. Sutter’s understanding of his relationship with alcohol, Cassidy’s understanding of Sutter — these things feel a little too neat. And there is a moment when the movie dips its toe into disaster but then pulls out that also feels too neat. I mention these things because these are nearly all of the flaws in The Spectacular Now. This movie is wonderfully well-written — simple, nuanced, quiet. It is perfectly acted by people who, sure, are in their early and mid 20s, not their late teens, but who feel like more natural teenagers than the usual lip-glossed, Abercrombie & Fitched types who populate Glee and the like. It is unusual that movies get this close to reflecting actual human behavior and not just what movie writers wish their teen years had been like. ARated R for alcohol use, language and some sexuality — all involving teens. Directed by James Ponsoldt with a screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber (from a book by Tim Tharp), The Spectacular Now is an hour and 35 minutes long and distributed by A24.
In so far as TV seasons even mean anything anymore, I still get excited about the fall season. You never know when in all the Made in Jerseys and Animal Practices you’re going to get a Nashville or an Elementary. If you’re looking for solid fall TV info without spending a day Googling and chasing every rumor of a possible good show, there are two places to turn: Entertainment Weekly’s annual fall TV issue (look for it sometime in September, based on previous years) and, this year, TVGuide.com. Sure, I’ll happily search for spoilers of this show or news about that new show, but when it comes to an overall look at the upcoming season, I’m looking for a neatly curated package that will allow me to waste some time when I should be working but won’t lead me down a black hole of TV recaps and internet snark. At TVGuide.com, click on Fall TV Premiere Calendar and it will take you to their easy to view calendar when all the shows premiere with links to the coverage and videos on each show as well as links to trailers of new shows and a day-by-day schedule guide. I realize every individual network’s website can also get you to this information, but TV Guide presents it all in one place and offers the easiest navigation for all the information. Sometimes the classics are still the best resources.