Film

Finding Amanda (2008)

Director: Peter Tolan

Movie review

From Time Out Chicago

Tolan is best known as a writer for The Larry Sanders Show and Rescue Me, which both feature assholes as the main characters. He seems to be trying for a slightly more likable but still screwed-up hero in Finding Amanda. Television writer Taylor (Broderick) is an amiable hack with a gambling problem and a sackful of addictions. In a last-ditch effort to save his marriage, he tries to play the hero by convincing his wife’s niece (Snow), who has become a successful hooker in Vegas, to go into rehab (irony alert). The zingers and inside-Hollywood jokes are dispensed at regular intervals, but Broderick is no Garry Shandling, and Tolan has little control over the tricky tone or the pacing of a feature film.

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