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...menopausal. The flick also creates a batch of likeable secondary characters—including Tripp’s BFFs (Bradley Cooper, “Wedding Crashers” and Justin Bartha, “National Treasure”) and Paula’s slightly unhinged roommate (indie darling Zooey Deschanel of “The Good Girl”)—adding an intelligent quirkiness that helps “Failure to Launch” differentiate itself from McConaughey’s lesser mushy fare, like “The Wedding Planner.” Bottom Line...
...lonely, struggling actress-in-the-big-city, Reese Holdin (Zooey Deschanel, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”) returns after many years to her suburban childhood home and estranged father, Don (Ed Harris, “A History of Violence”). A book editor (Amy Madigan, “Pollock”) has offered her $100,000 for the love letters her famous father wrote her equally famous and recently deceased mother. There Reese meets an English grad student (Amelia Warner, “Aeon Flux”) and wannabe Christian-rock...
...rest is a fairly stately, sometimes stilted evocation of antique attitudes and older, better movies. The torpid pace and expertly muted cinematography (by Caleb Deschanel) inevitably suggest the fading fragrance of those flowers Fante described. Ask the Dust is the ghost of a cult novel; it can't bring itself to life...
Along with Ford Prefect (Mos Def) and Trillian (Zooey Deschanel), the characters take off across the Universe in a stolen spaceship, getting into all sorts of trouble along...
...will now dive into 2004’s other promising offerings. The summer months will be slightly less clogged with redundant sequels than in years past, though general quality hardly seems a guarantee. I’m expecting solid laughs from Eulogy, a dysfunctional family comedy starring Zooey Deschanel, an exceptionally talented ingenue who’s been looking for a bigger vehicle after working wonders in minor classics Almost Famous and All the Real Girls...