Meeting Spencer

I enjoyed the ride more than the destination. Just as the stakes raised, the credits rolled. The movie's first half was a little slow but I still liked it overall. The character interplay held my interest and Jeffrey Tambor was good, as usual. I'm a sucker for NYC films. So if anyone can recommend more NYC movies similar to this, I'm all ears. Though I prefer the Woody Allen type more than the Whit Stillman version. There's only so much pretension I can take.

I really enjoyed seeing this film. Maybe because I know how insane and whimsical the entertainment business can be, but even if you know nothing about Broadway and movie making you can still have plenty of good laughs. I saw the film with a Los Angeles audience that laughed and howled so much that I think I missed some key lines of dialogue. I'll have to get this one on DVD or go see it again to find out what I missed.

Plus Tambor is just right in the lead role and has great timing and pacing.

If you need a movie were things blow up, don't bother, but if you want to have fun and be transported into a world of creative people fighting for their hopes and dreams, then go see this movie.

The pseudo-sophisticates behind "Meeting Spencer" may think they have written and produced a clever insider's look at the "real" world of show business. Instead, it is an appalling hash of a movie that one watches in disbelief, assuming that it must somehow have a point. It does not. This film would get a B- as a film school project. As a commercially-released film, it is laughable. Which is NOT to suggest that it is, for one moment, actually funny. The stilted dialogue is at least partly saved by the incredibly poor sound quality, which prevents most of the actors from being heard. This is, I think, meant to be a satire on the pretensions of the world of "the theatah." Instead it is a savage indictment of the world of indie film making, and even though the budget was clearly minimal, one can't imagine who might have actually put up whatever was spent to make this embarrassment.

I was lucky enough to get to see this witty movie recently at a Sneak Preview. . Its a different kind of comedy, its really more old school, very sophisticated and intelligent - adult type of humor, subtle -- like a Woody Allen film, not like Jud Apatow films... Very smart and you really have to pay attention to get all the jokes,. It all takes place at one restaurant in New York on one night.

Jeffery Tambor plays a director trying to get his carer back on track with a famous play he wants to produce on Broadway. But while he's at the restaurant to get the financing set up, ten million things start to go wrong, such as accidentally bumping into a sexy reporter who it turns out, he actually has an affair withl years earlier.

Form there things get more and more crazed and its a comedy of errors - mistaken identities and people who turn out not to be who you think they are, and lots of surprises Very unpredictable and keeps you guessing to the end! I'm hoping thus will be out in the theaters soon, I want to see it again. You need to see it twice to get everything. A lot of familiar faces in the cast and great soundtrack too!

Great movie if you just want to laugh and enjoy the experience! Slapstick comedy at its finest. Jeffrey Tambor is hilarious as a down-on-his-luck director trying to navigate the insanity of show business and the fickle nature of success. And who new Jessie Plemons had such pipes? I have to admit, after watching Friday Night Lights, I had no idea that Plemons had the chops to do comedy. His timing was perfect. I also really liked Melinda McGraw as the boozing, fickle actress willing to sell her sole for a part. Flawed yet endearing. The story has lots of twists so its easy to lose yourself and enjoy the ride.