Living Out Loud (1998)
Directed by Richard LaGravenese
Judith Moore is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor, has been having an affair with a younger woman. Judith stews, plans, plots and fantasizes, but she can't decide what to do with her life until she goes out to a night club to see singer Liz Bailey, who is full of advice on life and love. While out on the town, Judith is suddenly kissed by a total stranger, which opens her eyes to new possibilities... which is when she notices Pat, the elevator operator in her building.
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LaGravenese—whose modest directorial debut Living Out Loud was most memorable for its unexpected grace notes and narrative curlicues (a massage, a dance routine), as well as its shrewd, against-type direction of Danny DeVito, Holly Hunter, and Queen Latifah—has gotten a serious case of the jitters here, organizing the film as a series of clunky, predictable beats and slick omissions.
As inspirational teacher movies go, writer/director Richard LaGravenese's ("Living Out Loud") take on a true story hues close to reality by using the real Freedom Writers' words and embracing the geeky earnestness of his main character.
In this fact-based drama from writer-director Richard LaGravenese ("Living Out Loud"), she plays Erin Gruwell, a high-school teacher who's so spunky and upbeat that you get the feeling she's not just from another ZIP code, but another planet.
Big question: Can writer-director Richard LaGravenese ("Living Out Loud") make this true story spring from the page without ramming it down our throats?
The screenplay is credited exclusively to Susannah Grant, who also worked on Ever After and Pocahontas, but the dialogue reminds me of Richard LaGravenese (Living Out Loud, The Fisher King), the writer/director whose name was on early credit listings for the film but has since been excised.