Though I find it star uncommonly attractive and charming this movie is a real stinker. So pretentious and worse, dull. Some scenes, especially having to do with acting classes or auditions are excruciating and not in a good way. The wince factor here is very high. The film looks like a student film and it's inexplicable, to me, why such big stars are in it. Chevy Chase, who I have always found quite agreeable in movies, is wasted here and seems to fumble through his one scene as if he had just been given the lines that morning. I really can't believe I made it all the way to the end of this. But I did, more as a tribute to Naomi Watts, who is always, at least, watchable. She's almost given too much to do here but it all adds up to nothing. Sorry, Naomi. I will follow you anywhere but, please, no more Ellie Parkers.
Review of Ellie Parker
