It’s love at first sight when these two strangers meet on the bland indie Pretty Problems.
Lindsay (Britt Rentschler) is a clerk at a consignment boutique in Los Angeles, sipping some of the wine the store offers to shoppers while her cat, who shines like a flower (JJ Nolan), takes a walk. , swallowing other women. They smile, giggle, chatter, and the bond quickly escalates as Cat begins complimenting Lindsay and nearly buys out the store. Soon, crammed with both her ego and her sales commission, a smitten Lindsay and her spiteful husband Jack (Michael Tennant) are on their way to a weekend getaway at the Cats.
The cat’s house turns out to be a sprawling mansion tucked away in Sonoma, and as her boutique suggests, she’s wealthy and a bit eccentric, and has found a new pastime in Lindsay. and made a half-hearted joke to Lindsay. Instead, the weekend turns into an overlong, undercooked manners comedy about how, yes, really rich people are different. For the most part, this is about how Lindsay needs to shake up her life, revitalize her disastrous marriage, and find herself.
It takes nearly the entirety of this sitcom-like silliness for Lindsay to figure it out (viewers will get the idea at 10). Written by Tennant and directed by Kestrin Pantera, “Pretty Problems” lightly pokes fun at Cat and her husband, their lifestyle, and First, while drawing on Lindsay’s neediness and narcissism to make that happen. It takes a very long time to reach an obvious conclusion. world problem. Nolan’s best performance here falls well short of the film’s obvious purpose and its comedy—Cat may be joking, but she’s the only one who lands.
quite a problem
Unrated. Running time: 1 hour 43 minutes.Available for rent or purchase at the theater apple tv, google play and other streaming platforms and pay-TV operators.