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11/22/2021

Shiva Baby (2021)

A college-age "sugar baby" goes to a shiva with her parents and ends up running into the "daddy" she'd just been with -- along with his wife and infant daughter. The premise is a whole lot more interesting than what this film did with it. 

Everything that can goes wrong does: she gets a cut on her thigh and has to remove her ruined pantyhose... she gets an entire cup of coffee spilled on her... she is pushed into a cabinet, causing a glass vase of flower to break... she loses her unlocked phone so that her sugar baby account and recent nude selfies can be found... the bracelet her "daddy" just gifted to her is recognized by his wife as being the same as one she owns... on and on and on. If that weren't bad enough, I also hated every single person we met and most of the dialogue seemed to be improvised by people new to the concept of improvisation. It had the same feeling as when you see extras "walking" down the street, but their arms don't swing convincingly and their steps are a bit too short. Just awkward and obviously fake.

Unfunny and irritating. I was so relieved that it was barely an hour and a quarter.

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