TRCC Reviews
Take Me Home Tonight Synopsis: Four years after graduation, an awkward high school genius uses his sister’s boyfriend’s Labor Day party as the perfect opportunity to make his move on his high school crush. MIT graduate Matt Campbell (Topher Grace) is at a crossroads in his life. Despite his impressive degree, he’s working at a video store in the mall and still lives at home with his parents and twin sister, Wendy (Anna Faris). When his high school crush Tori (Teresa Palmer) walks into the video store, Matt concocts a lie about working for Goldman Sachs to impress her, and…
27 Dresses: After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister’s side as her sibling marries the man she’s secretly in love with.
Notting Hill Synopsis: The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world. Twenty years ago, Julia Roberts had two romantic comedies released within two months of each other. The first was Notting Hill, where she played Anna Scott, a famous actress who found love with an awkward but charming Brit, played to perfection by Hugh Grant. The other was Runaway Bride, which featured the much-anticipated reunion between Roberts and her Pretty Woman co-star, Richard Gere. While both films were box office successes, Notting Hill won critical acclaim and remains Roberts’s…
Always Be My Maybe: A pair of childhood friends end up falling for each other when they grow up.
Knocked Up Synopsis: For fun-loving party animal Ben Stone, the last thing he ever expected was for his one-night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks later to tell him she’s pregnant with his child. Career-driven journalist Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl) hits a snag when she finds herself pregnant from a one-night stand with an unemployed slacker named Ben (Seth Rogen). When she decides to keep the baby, the odd couple tries to give a real relationship a try. But their differences have them wondering if they’re too incompatible to raise a child together. Written and directed by…
Miss Congeniality Synopsis: An F.B.I. Agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event. I’ve been in sort of a movie slump lately, which sucks, but I’m also making pretty good headway with my Goodreads challenge! That being said, I watched Miss Congeniality on Saturday, and I realized I was dragging butt with my review, so I was determined to get it published today. Oi. Grace Hart (Sandra Bullock) is a tough, somewhat under-appreciated FBI Agent who is demoted to desk duty when her attempt to save a choking mobster…
Couples Retreat: A comedy centered around four couples who settle into a tropical-island resort for a vacation. While one of the couples is there to work on the marriage, the others fail to realize that participation in the resort’s therapy sessions is not optional.
The Last Summer Synopsis: A group of young people in Chicago come together during the summer before they head off to college. The Last Summer follows a group of high school graduates through their last few months of “freedom” before college. The movie has quite a few storylines going on. Griffin (KJ Apa) is set to start at Columbia University in the fall, thanks to some strings pulled by his dad. He has a long-standing crush on Phoebe (Maia Mitchell), with whom he went to school before leaving to attend a prestigious prep school. Phoebe will attend NYU film school,…
The Rewrite Synopsis: An Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there. Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant) was once a promising screenwriter in Hollywood. His first movie, Paradise Misplaced, was a huge hit and won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Unfortunately, his next few movies were total duds, leaving Keith desperate for any paying job while he pitches unwanted movies to various studios. His personal life also took a hit when his wife divorced him for the director of Paradise…