TRCC Reviews
Say Anything… Synopsis: A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college. With high school graduation behind him, Lloyd Dobbler (John Cusack) decides to finally ask out the brainy valedictorian Diane Court (Ione Skye). Diane has just been awarded a prestigious fellowship to study in England and only has sixteen weeks before she boards a plane overseas. Feeling like she missed out on the normal high school experiences because of her studies, Diane agrees to accompany Lloyd to a graduation party, and from there, their “friends with potential” becomes a powerful…
Mystic Pizza: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic.
The Big Sick: Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash.
Elizabethtown: During a hometown memorial for his Kentucky-born father, a young man begins an unexpected romance with a too-good-to-be-true stewardess.
Working Girl: When a secretary’s idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss’ job.
Eat Pray Love Synopsis: A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction.
Laura Rosen (Katie Holmes) is about to have a difficult weekend. Not only is her former college roommate and best friend, Lila Hayes (Anna Paquin), getting married to Laura’s ex-boyfriend, Tom (Josh Duhamel), but Laura is also the maid of honor. Laura and the rest of their mutual friends – known as The Romantics for their dating history – convene in Maine at the seaside estate of Lila’s wealthy parents. And thus begins a weekend of awkward wedding toasts, drunken shenanigans, and forbidden kisses. Written and directed by Galt Neiderhoffer, I felt like The Romantics had a lot of potential.…
After losing her job and breaking up with her commitment-phobic boyfriend all in a week, Gabriela Diaz (Christina Milian) spontaneously and drunkenly enters a contest to win a cute inn in New Zealand. The next morning, she wakes up, and ta-da! She’s won the inn. Deciding to sell the inn and use the profit to start over, Gabriela travels to New Zealand, where she finds the inn needing a massive renovation. It’s also inhabited by a goat named Gilbert. Gabriela gets to work and quickly realizes she cannot do it all alone. The townspeople of Beachwood Downs rally around Gabriela…
Plus One: In order to survive a summer of wedding fever,Ben and Alice, agree to be each others plus one at every wedding they’ve been invited to.