Adult Beginners (2014)
Directed by Ross Katz
A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister, brother-in-law and three year-old nephew in the suburbs — only to become their manny. Faced with real responsibility, he may finally have to grow up — but not without some bad behavior first.
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Directed by Ross Katz (who handled the charismatic comedy Adult Beginners a year ago), The Choice’s best attractions are the talented Benjamin Walker and the watery, small-town North Carolina scenery.
Directed by Ross Katz (Adult Beginners), the film is full of half-developed threads—Travis’ religious hang-ups; his father's (Tom Wilkinson) love life; his assumptions about Gabby's family—that only appear for a scene or two before being dropped; they feel like vestiges of excised subplots.
The agonizing decision of the deceptively mundane title is enough to render a theater completely silent — but ultimately, with the way that director Ross Katz (“Adult Beginners”) and screenwriter Sipe stick to their source, there’s no real choice made at all.
Although the film’s directed by Ross Katz (Adult Beginners) and written by Bryan Sipe, who also wrote the upcoming Demolition with Jake Gyllenhaal, it’s Sparks’ imprint that’s most palpable.
The Choice is directed by Ross Katz, a successful producer with one directing credit (Adult Beginners).
The Choice, for example, was directed by Ross Katz, who made last year’s terminally mild Nick Kroll dram-com Adult Beginners .