I thoroughly enjoyed this film and found it very engaging and funny. However the timing and pacing of this film most likely will throw off most viewers.
The story revolves around some highly unscrupulous sales reps for pet store products who find creative, humorous ways to shaft their competitors. It appears that Tim Orr must either have life experience being a sales rep or has done his homework on the topic because he exudes an instinct for the dark side of the trade.
There's also a subplot with Gerri Lawlor's character who is married to Tim Orr's character with a secret extramarital affair, which the actors manage to skillfully weave into the main plot.
The plot could have been about almost anything.
I had known that all the dialog and acting in this movie were improvised - no scripts. But instead of a series of vignettes that are comedic ("About Last Night" comes to mind) the structure of this movie is long form improv, or a series of improv scenes connected by a story thread which is also improvised, made up on the fly. With this form of improv everything which happens in any of the scenes must become part of the plot including mistakes.
In the theater, long form improv requires the actors to keep the story "straight" while it is evolving - and at the same time adapt to any new wrinkles that might show up. I'm not sure if that's how this film was made or not. But my experience was very similar to watching long form improv in the theater.
If you watch this like a "normal" Hollywood movie it could seem very disjunct. There should be a genre called "Long Form Improv" but I don't know of any movies but this that would fit.
The story revolves around some highly unscrupulous sales reps for pet store products who find creative, humorous ways to shaft their competitors. It appears that Tim Orr must either have life experience being a sales rep or has done his homework on the topic because he exudes an instinct for the dark side of the trade.
There's also a subplot with Gerri Lawlor's character who is married to Tim Orr's character with a secret extramarital affair, which the actors manage to skillfully weave into the main plot.
The plot could have been about almost anything.
I had known that all the dialog and acting in this movie were improvised - no scripts. But instead of a series of vignettes that are comedic ("About Last Night" comes to mind) the structure of this movie is long form improv, or a series of improv scenes connected by a story thread which is also improvised, made up on the fly. With this form of improv everything which happens in any of the scenes must become part of the plot including mistakes.
In the theater, long form improv requires the actors to keep the story "straight" while it is evolving - and at the same time adapt to any new wrinkles that might show up. I'm not sure if that's how this film was made or not. But my experience was very similar to watching long form improv in the theater.
If you watch this like a "normal" Hollywood movie it could seem very disjunct. There should be a genre called "Long Form Improv" but I don't know of any movies but this that would fit.
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