Now You Know (a Jeff Anderson picture)
11-14-02, 08:11 AM
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Now You Know (a Jeff Anderson picture)
This amiable and flawed romantic comedy written, directed and co-starring Jeff Anderson (Randall in Clerks) manages to continue the New Jersey no-wave Kevin Smith claims to have abandoned. Now You Know features the same marginal acting, spotty direction, and down-to-earth characters as a Clerks or Chasing Amy.
The skeletal plot concerns a dumped fiancé played by Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under) trying to understand why his bride-to-be (Rashida Jones) cancelled their wedding. Their return to New Jersey on the weekend of what would have been their wedding provides the framework for a series of conversations about life, love, sex, marriage, impending motherhood, and how cool Prince is (relatively). And while it shares the same flaws as some of Smith's work, it also has the playfulness, warmth, and maturity that distinguished those films. It's also paced well, never staying too long on any one conversation and interjecting some funny slapstick at just the right moments.
This isn't a View Askew picture. The producers are actually from Libertyville, Illinois. One of them was at the screening to introduce the film. Smith does appear in the film to deliver a funny monologue about marriage.
Overall, it's a likable debut from Anderson. For anyone who dug Randall, there's plenty of him here in the guise of Sisto's friend Gil. Also Trevor Fehrman plays another compadre and is quite funny.
The skeletal plot concerns a dumped fiancé played by Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under) trying to understand why his bride-to-be (Rashida Jones) cancelled their wedding. Their return to New Jersey on the weekend of what would have been their wedding provides the framework for a series of conversations about life, love, sex, marriage, impending motherhood, and how cool Prince is (relatively). And while it shares the same flaws as some of Smith's work, it also has the playfulness, warmth, and maturity that distinguished those films. It's also paced well, never staying too long on any one conversation and interjecting some funny slapstick at just the right moments.
This isn't a View Askew picture. The producers are actually from Libertyville, Illinois. One of them was at the screening to introduce the film. Smith does appear in the film to deliver a funny monologue about marriage.
Overall, it's a likable debut from Anderson. For anyone who dug Randall, there's plenty of him here in the guise of Sisto's friend Gil. Also Trevor Fehrman plays another compadre and is quite funny.
