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Gut-to-Go (2010)
It's Hip for Men to be Round and (maybe) OK for Women to Have Hips
It's difficult to deftly tell a funny story with a serious purpose. Either the message gets buried in a crush of jokes or the humor gets lost in PSA-style moralizing. GUT-TO-GO is the rare comedy that manages to make you laugh from opening to closing credits AND leave the theater applauding its important meaning.
For this I credit two factors: 1) a clever script that seamlessly combines subtle irony and broad humor and 2)nuanced acting by Bri Prooker.
Bri so brilliantly embodies three distinct characters in the film that I didn't know until her name kept popping up in the credits that one rather than three actors played the roles of Amy, a frazzled, desperate-to-be-thin-before-her-date-arrives woman; Sue, an over-the-top British infomercial host, and Cyndi, a breathless newscaster who delivers a feature story as Pulitzer Prize-winning breaking news.
I also enjoyed Chad Benjamin and Heidi Fielek, who displayed terrific comedic sensibilities in their roles as Todd, a hunk with body image issues, and Charlotte, Amy's trend-loving friend.
Go-Go-Go!! see GUT-TO-GO!