Sunday 5 August 2018

The Escort (2016 Will Slocombe)

Not sure why I got on to this now - maybe it was a well-regarded romcom? Slocombe (no relation) made a previous film called Cold Turkey (2013) which starred Peter Bogdanovich, which he also wrote, but didn't this time - it was Michael Doneger (who plays the lead) and Brandon A Cohen. Lyndsy Fonseca (Kick Ass 1 & 2, Hot Tub Time Machine) is the titular heroine.

Apart from the guy being a sex addict, this is pretty routine romcom material, really, a sort of Runaway Bride variant. (It gets the Pretty Woman comparison out of the way pretty early.)

Father and sister - Bruce Campbell and Rachel Resheff - are quite fun but even these are faintly sketched traditional character types more than characters.

It was OK.



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