All About Us

I don't care that it didn't have a huge budget. This movie lifted my spirits, made me laugh, smile, cry light tears of joy and humbleness. It was heartfelt and well written. The acting was superb. There are so many high budget poorly written crap movies out there that keep you numb with loud noise and pointless chatter. This move moved me and I felt better after watching it. It takes you somewhere emotionally and I loved that. You FELT the feelings of the characters and believed it! I will add this to one of my favorite movies. I feel this is a nice movie to watch with someone you love. It even makes a cute date night movie or a great movie to watch with yourself or friends. It's positive and moves you in a way that is uplifting and I can guarantee that if you enjoy the movie, you will feel happier and appreciate your life more just by having watched it!

I just saw this movie- in fact its still going on- at the Miami Film Festival and it is another movie about people making movies in Hollywood. It's just slow and boring and the character interactions are on the level that you could find in your own household. It drama over money and families and who cares, its mundane and not very interesting. I'd say of the 42 people that showed up, 10 have left already. The story is about a couple trying to make it in the film industry and failing at it, so now they have to decide if they are gonna try to keep working on movies or if they are going to begin their real life with their child. There go two more people from the theater.

I just saw a screening of this movie and I thought it was really good. The story is of a struggling film producer and his writer/director wife. It is a well written story, and having met the director/writer, is semi-autobiographical, which I found amazing. I went into seeing this movie without any real idea of what to expect and was pleasantly surprised. It had the right amount of humor and reality without getting to cheesy. And Morgan Freeman really does make an appearance in this film! The film contains a lot of close up shots on the characters, but it works; it's a different style than I was used to. Although slow in some parts, overall the characters they meet and the plot really kept me interested in the film. It made me want to go out an rent the first movie, All About You.

Dreadful score, the direction is very amateurish, and the acting is well below average. Cheaply done and it looks it. The story isn't even that interesting. I can't see why they bothered to make it. What really irks me is how the totally obscure director (Christine Swanson) is listed as an award winning director. She won one award - Short Film Award at, get this, The Acapulco Black Film Festival!!!! Now there is a major achievement! Was she employee of the month at Wal-Mart too? Better yet, before the credits, it says that All About Us became a best selling DVD. It isn't even out yet on DVD, (Today's date 06/22/08, street date for the movie 07/01/08) so how can it be a best seller already!!! And it is very likely it won't sell at all. Misleading lies. What a turn off.

I could not wait for this film to be over. The film did not give you a reason to want to keep watching it. I don't understand what the director was trying to accomplish with this movie. What a waste of money. The movie was really predictable. The acting was not bad. The objective is clear, but the director failed at making the journey interesting and there was not enough rooting interest where you were eager to keep watching. It is a shame that African American actors have to be reduced to having to make such poor quality films. It is better to pass on these types of films, and wait or develop projects that are entertaining and meaningful.