Brittany (Jillian Bell) is a person with some destructive streaks. The struggle was real as she went through the motions to lose a vast amount of weight to run a marathon (Jillian Bell lost 40 pounds as well to pull off her character's accomplishment). All the main plot points are here: finding out who her real friends are, finding out what her strengths and limits are, the jokes, the family's support, etc. The end is very nice. It's a small independent film that did well at Sundance and now has some distribution.

Random notes:
-There is a shot of an Uno game and there are basically 40 yellow cards in a row. I wanted to know if the person who…

"I'm sorry but I'll have to report you for this." - Brittany,

-2019 Ranked: boxd.it/2lsbC

I've discovered it's hard to lose weight when you don't really like doing anything and you also don't really like abstaining from anything.

Brittany is a late 20s fuckup who is overweight so she starts training for a marathon to help with her weight and confidence. Along the way she interacts with a ragtag group of people, none of whom are very funny at all. What ensues is one of the more paint by numbers films of the year.

This is a first world problems film with no special way of shooting or applying the script. I like Jillian Bell and she does fine here…

Yikes. I’m all for giving first time filmmakers a chance, but at least make sure he or she is a right fit for the project (and knows how to write a screenplay). Being friends with the subject isn’t enough, sorry. It’s painfully clear that this is a debut - the dialogue is terrible and chock full of heavy handed exposition throughout, scenes end at strange times and are stitched together awkwardly, and the screenplay really struggles to organically weave all the supporting characters into the story. It’s also tonally all over the place. Bell is decent and there are some funny moments, but everyone and everything is just kinda...bad. It’s also uncomfortably mean spirited at times and strays way too…

When this film started it hit a little too close to home. It captured all of my current anxieties and put them on screen. I relate so much to Brittany’s fears of being close to 30 and feeling lost and scared in life. So you try to cling onto one thing that makes you feel like you’re in control and doing something worthwhile. I feel that and I really felt for this character because I could see a lot of myself in her. 

But then as the film progresses, Brittany becomes so mean. Like really really mean. Like hard to root for her mean. And it never feels like that really pays off. I was never like oh I understand…

This film is disguised as just being a movie about someone who wants to run the NYC marathon but ends up being a lot more than just that. There’s a lot of growth, realization, and acceptance and Brittany and her friends being full grown adults, you realize you are never too old nor is it ever too late to have to deal with things like that.

It’s hard not to relate to this movie especially when living a life of adulthood and independence at a young age, it gets tough. And getting older only makes it harder when you see others your age (or younger) succeeding. But thanks to this film, it helps to see that all you need to…