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First seen on
-the wire
Break-in, attempted
sexual assault
'God, these people are, like, so old.
'People Like Us'
too common to be
memorable
By PROMA KHOSLA
Daily Arts Writer
Sometime in the recent past,
"first world problems" has become
a viable sub-genre of indie film,
and "People
Like Us" is the
latest install-
ment to add to . People Like Us
the pile. Like
the entire At Quality 16
subcategory, and Rave
it has little Touchstone
to add to the
world of cin-
ema but thankfully takes nothing
away.
"People Like Us" is the story
of smooth-talking barter expert
Sam (Chris Pine, "This Means
War") who has to come to terms
with his daddy issues after said
daddy passes away. Turns out
Sam's record-producer father
had a secret daughter Frankie
(Elizabeth Banks, "The Hunger
Games") who in turn has a smart-
ass son (newcomer Michael Hall
D'Addario). Intrigued by the two
and enticed by their inheritance,
Sam creeps into the lives of his sis-
ter and nephew in a generic narra-
tive of love and redemption.
And therein lies the problem,
not only with "People Like Us," but
with all filns of the as-yet-unla-
belled "first world problems" sub-
group: It's generic. Sam's problems
with his father are standard issue;
he didn't spend enough time with
him, his dad kept secrets, boo-
hoo. Yes, more of the audience can
relate, but why would they want
to? If you want common problems,
go back to reality. Is it too much
to ask for movies to be an escape
from that?
Still, "People Like Us" has its
revelations, the main one being
Chris Pine in an almost-effortless
turn as serious actor and not just
the giver of the smoldering gaze.
He inhabits Sam easily from the
first scene and boldly goes into the
uncharted territories of confusion,
angst, rage and regret. There's a
particularly random montage of
Sam getting drunk and listening to
his father's old records while try-
ing to track down Frankie's bio-
logical mother; the scene leads to
nothing, but Pine's performance is
transfixing.
D'Addario charms as well,
exploring every shade between
rude and impish that an eleven-
year old boy can inhabit. In the
end, he draws the estranged sib-
lings together and proves to be
the most mature character in the
film.
There are certain scenes
between Frankie and Sam that
get tense. Not Jamie-and-Cersei
tense - hell, not even Luke-and-
Leia tense - but enough to make
the casual viewer tighten up a bit
and hope that Frankie can ignore
the objectively hot Chris Pine vis-
age before her and friendzone him
like there's no tomorrow. Nothing
actually happens, but it's enough
to mar the film experience and
Sam's character altogether.
In a summer of superheroes,
male strippers and talking teddy
bears, "People Like Us" tries to
be the normative film that mov-
iegoers might just need. Unfortu-
nately, it's not the film people like
us want.
Ding-dong, the witch is dead!
That's what the very, very few of
us who still watch "Weeds" pro-
claimed joyously after last season's
finale, where
yet another
gimmicky, sea-
son-bridging Weeds
cliffhanger fea-
tured the head Showtime
of Nancy (Mary- Season Premiere
Louise Parker),
the pot-growing
suburban matri-
arch of the Botwin clan, nestled
squarely within the crosshairs of a
not-so-distant sniper.
If Showtime had had the guts
to follow through on. it's setup, it
would've been a welcome end to a
character whose questionable judg-
ment has managed to somehow
devastate the lives of everybody
she comes into contact with. But
unfortunately, as "Weeds" has done
time and time again over the course
of its now eight-year run, the show
cops out. Nancy's left in a coma,
her head having endured far less
damage than bullets usually do to
peoples' skulls on TV (or in real life
for that matter), and we're left with
a half-hour of typically meaning-
less bedside patter from the whiney,
emasculated supporting cast that
doubles as Nancy's family.
The cast's comedic flatness and
undeniable group dysfunction isn't
really their fault. Like the show
itself, they've been dragged across
rough asphalt behind the highly
profitable franchise that is the Bot-
win family car/camper/trailer, from
Agrestic, to Renmar, to Seattle, to
Dearborn and now, in what Show-
timepromises is the show's last sea-
son, Connecticut/New York. Along
the way, we've seen show creator
Jenji Kohan take a promising prem-
ise and a cast of atypically strong
female characters, and turn them
into a collection of reprehensible
characters who are either too rote
to enjoy or so selfishly motivated
that it's not even fun to hate them.
Case in point: Nancy herself. As
her sons sit beside her comatose
body and wonder who could've put
a bullet in her skull, they reminisce
about the who's who of psychotic
criminal scumbags their mother
has gone out of her way to offend. In
addition to standard costs of doing
business, like the Mexican cartel
and the Armenian mob, they list
well as
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"that chick whose husband Doesn'tit feelso fresh and different?"
banged in that trailer park." the show seems to yell.
No, it really doesn't, and after
innumerable setting changes and
eason starts contrived overdramatic conflicts,
it appears that "Weeds" has finally
thout a bang run out of room to run. The writ-
ers string the newest episode along
with desperate, lowest-common-
denominator gags, and an added
ist serves not only as docu- dose of pay-cable profanity, but
on of Nancy's numerous none of it is fresh, or even amusing.
against her friends and fam- A particularly low-flying stunt: the
the show's downward cre- removal of a "vagina weight" prior
de. As her children list more to impromptu hospital sex. Another
re scenarios, they're literally show pulled a similar gag in its final
ig the show's growing des- episodes, involving a fake penis
for new material, as it stages used to cheata drug test. That show
ngly illogical and completely was "Entourage." When that show
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Witness causes
culprit to flee
on 1200 block of
Oakland Ave.
By ANNA ROZENBERG
ManagingNews Editor
A student's home was broken
into on the 1200 block of Oakland
Avenue early in the morning on
July 2, according to Ann Arbor
Police.
After breaking into the apart-
ment and attempting to assault a
female resident, the perpetrator
was interrupted by a witness and
fled the building, according to a
crime alert sent from the Depart-
ment of Public Safety.
The crime alert described the
culprit as "Black male, mid-20s,
dark complexion and short hair."
The AAPD also sent out an
alert with the same information
earlier today.
AAPD Sergeant. Paul Curtis
said the department can't offer
further details but the AAPD is
investigating the incident.
"We'll be looking into it - I can
assure you that," he said.
Crimestoppers is offering an
$1,000 reward to anyone with
information leading to an arrest.