{"id":8821,"date":"2012-09-19T11:52:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T17:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=8821"},"modified":"2012-09-19T11:52:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T17:52:14","slug":"balancing-act-for-a-good-time-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=8821","title":{"rendered":"Balancing Act: For A Good Time Call . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>by Sandra Olmsted<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/balancing-act-for-a-good-time-call\/for-a-good-time-pg-11\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8822\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8822\" title=\"For a Good Time pg 11\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flovalleynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/For-a-Good-Time-pg-11-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Director Jaime Travis film, <em>For A Good Time Call<\/em> . . ., isn\u2019t for everyone. Penned and produced by Lauren Anne Miller, Katie Anne Naylon, the film goes beyond chick flick with personal details of the female characters lives that even some women may think epitomize \u201cToo much information.\u201d\u00a0 However, this female buddy film has a quirky humor and an honesty about women\u2019s lives which is rarely seen on the big scene. But the subject will appeal to men also, but for adults only.<\/p>\n<p>When Lauren Powell (played by the film\u2019s cowriter Lauren Anne Miller) discovers that her long time live-in boyfriend, Charlie (James Wolk), suspends their \u201cboring\u201d relationship while working temporarily in Italy, she must find a new living arrangement.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Katie Steele (Ari Graynor) must find a roommate or loose the apartment she inherited from her grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Jeese (Justin Long), best friend to both women, with a plan to introduce the two apartment-challenged women.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the two women have an unpleasant history from their college days and still hate each other.\u00a0 However, they also have no choice but to be roommates.\u00a0 Soon, Lauren is horrified to learn that Katie pays her half of the rent by working as a\u00a0phone sex operator.\u00a0 When Lauren\u2019s new job gets put on hold for three months, she must either decide to help Katie start her own phone sex company or both of them will he homeless.\u00a0 While Lauren could move home to her upper crust, prudish parents, Katie has no family and no safety net.<\/p>\n<p>Felix and Oscar have nothing on this odd couple.\u00a0 Lauren dresses and acts like a conservative, uptight, career women with little time for or interest in the lifestyle of the free-spirited Katie, who doesn\u2019t even know she needs a plan for her future.\u00a0 As evidenced in the opening of the film, Lauren has a staid sexual relationship with Charlie, but Katie comfortably sounds like a much more daring woman.\u00a0 The only way trait they share is their deep, abiding, and justified hatred of each other and everything about each other.\u00a0 Fortunately, the film doesn\u2019t rely on this cultural and personality clash for too long, and more interesting plot twists develop.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s certain balance to the script. Even though the film often feels like a series of skits at times, meaning that the story and character develop sometimes suffer, the overriding story reveals Katie and Lauren\u2019s relationship in great detail. The silliness of phone sex\u00a0 becomes tiresome for women, but there is some balance between,\u00a0 so there is something for everyone to laugh at.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The jokes are sometimes more predictable groaners than big laughs, but the film has a good-natured, adult humor which will being smiles at the very least.\u00a0 The female-buddy relationship that these two mortal enemies eventual must either forge or give up on their dreams is the most truthful since <em>Thelma &amp; Louise.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ari Graynor and Lauren Anne Miller show they have the chops to carry a comedy despite the film\u2019s problems and the film\u2019s narrow appeal. Nia Vardalos has a small role, and there are zany cameos by Kevin Smith and Miller&#8217;s husband Seth Rogen as the clients of the phone sex operator.\u00a0 Watch for other cameos!<\/p>\n<p>A Focus Feature release, <em>For A Good Time Call .<\/em> . . runs 86 minutes and is rated R for strong sexual content throughout, language, and some drug use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sandra Olmsted Director Jaime Travis film, For A Good Time Call . . ., isn\u2019t for everyone. 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