Girl Most Likely

**
Release Date: September 7th 2013

A failed New York playwright awkwardly navigates the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year's News.

Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini (The Extra Man, The Nanny Diaries)

Starring: Kristen Wiig, Annette Bening, Matt Dillon, Darren Criss, Christopher Fitzgerald

Even now after watching this film I'm trying to comprehend the meaning of Girl Most Likely. Girl most likely to what... succeed? Fail? Fall in love? Cry about everything and blame it on others? Maybe.

There isn't many uplifting moments in Kristen Wiig's life. We follow her break-up, her crazy way to win back her boyfriend, and a general lack of trust towards anyone. Her fake suicide attempt goes out of control as one of her 'so called' friends finds her either asleep or knocked out from taking some of the pills, we never fully know. What we do know is the doctor believes she's 51/50 (police term for crazy and on the loose), and needs a loved one to oversee her for the next 72 hours. That 'loved one' in none other Annette Bening, her gambling, not so affectionate mother.

Wiig is taken back to her family home in New Jersey, much to her disgust. She finds out that her mother is seeing someone slightly odd; Matt Dillon, a younger man with the problem of talking a load of crap... for example he's undercover CIA and he's been struck by lightening three times. Another inhabitant (Darren Criss), has moved in to her old bedroom, forcing her to shelter under a bed sheet fort in the living room.

The only piece of information that's drives the story is let slip by her mum; that her father isn't actually dead and lives in New York. At least half of the film is filled with nonsense that has nothing to do with this.  

This may not be Wiig's best performance but it's made up by one other performance. Christopher Fitzgerald is Ralph, Wiig's lovable brother. He may not be the brightest, but he's knows what he wants in life, and has the most unforgettable scene in the film.... taking his bullet proof, human sized crab shell around the streets of New York, reeling in more laughs for one scene than the rest of the film.

Overview: Forget about the girl, the film is most likely to fail.