Support the Girls (2018)
Directed by Andrew Bujalski
Lisa Conroy is general manager at a highway-side 'sports bar with curves', Double Whammies. She nurtures and protects her employees fiercely - but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction. Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy, but what happens when reality pokes a bunch of holes in it?
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We first meet Lisa sitting in her car in the parking lot outside work, getting in a good, early morning weep before her long day begins, an introduction that instantly recalls the compressed crying fits of Holly Hunter’s Jane Craig in Broadcast News .
At its best the film is reminiscent of early Jonathan Demme and Barry Levinson’s workplace comedies like Diner and Tin Men.
It may add a concrete end to the central narrative arcs by its inclusion, but its peripheral appearance as a source of conflict throughout doesn’t have the bite it needs; Edgar Wright’s The World’s End treaded similar water five years ago, and similarly to Support the Girls, its cultural critiques remained in the margins.
Horrible Bosses (the title is a big giveaway) Set It Up, The Devil Wears Prada and The Proposal are just a few examples of the last few years - 'bad bosses' is a well understood trope which has been utilised by movies, almost well enough to spawn its own sub-genre.