Very quirky film takes place in real time. An actor (Morgan Freeman) is dumped in an out-of-the-way town in California (Brentwood - not Brentwood Illinois, silly) and befriends a feisty checkout girl played by Paz Vega. Unfortunately we could only understand half of what she says. Anyway, in a minimal turn of events, he helps her go to a job interview, and they part at the end of the day, after barely an hour and 10 minutes, and having shared their own personal '10 items'.
Her car is another AMC Gremlin, which we last saw in Ruthless People - and as an extraordinary link to that film, Danny de Vito (and Rhea Perlman) appears in a short cameo. Also featuring Jonah Hill, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Dudek, Kumar Pallana and Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory).
It's a cute film, interesting in its look at massive supermarkets, featuring some very long takes, e.g. Freeman and Vega singing in the car, and a killer song in the sound of 'La Recete' by Kemo the Blaxican.
Shot by Phedon Papamichael and edited by Michael Kahn. What on earth is Chivo doing on this as a first assistant cameraman in the same year as Children of Men???
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