Trainwreck (2015)
Directed by Judd Apatow
Ever since her father drilled into her head that monogamy isn't realistic, magazine writer Amy has made promiscuity her credo. As much as she enjoys an uninhibited life free of commitment, Amy is really in a rut. While writing a profile about charming and successful sports doctor Aaron Conners, she finds herself actually falling in love for the first time -- and what's more, Aaron seems to really like her too. Amy starts to wonder if it's time to clean up her act and face her fears.
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There are some misses: WWE champ John Cena as Amy’s swole, sensitive ex (let’s just say that acting is not his forte); Tilda Swinton as her snobbish Brit boss (alas, her jokes fall flat – but for anyone who has seen We Need to Talk about Kevin , watching her and Miller reunite onscreen in this capacity is deliciously surreal); and Daniel Radcliffe and Marisa Tomei as characters in a black-and-white indie film, presumably a spoof of Frances Ha and other aphorism-spouting fare, that doesn’t quite gel.
Menos niña que la asexual protagonista de Frances Ha (2012), de Noah Baumbach, pero más que la compleja Debbie (Leslie Mann), en Bienvenido a los 40 (This Is 40, 2012), de Apatow, Amy es un punto medio entre una infancia inacabada y una adultez plena: una adolescente.
In Jenny Slate’s Obvious Child , the meet cute involved a drunken fart in the face and was followed up with an accidental pregnancy and consequent abortion — a welcome change from Judd Apatow’s (already unorthodox) 2007 film Knocked Up .
On the heels of the tremendously entertaining ‘Obvious Child,’ which challenged conventions about the modern female, ‘Trainwreck’ doesn’t feel nearly as groundbreaking and revolutionary.
Maybe it’s the cranky old man in me that I’ve had issues with other movies about modern young New York women (like Obvious Child).
Ezra Miller (“The Perks of Being a Wallflower”), as a S’Nuff intern, has a memorable seduction scene in which he gets his freak on.