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[/amazon_link]– Muriel’s Wedding (1994) : Toni Collette can certainly pick her movies. From the lovely “Little Miss Sunshine” to “About A Boy” to “Emma”, she brings grace and charm to every character she portrays. Here she plays Muriel Heslop, a very put-upon small-town girl with low self-esteem. She lives a fairly, dull uneventful life in Porpoise Spit, Australia and spends much of her time dreaming about her wedding day. Then she gets a chance to leave Porpoise Spit and move to the big city . . .
– Antardwand (Hindi, 2008) : A fantastic little Hindi film, Antardwand very deservedly won the National Award for Best Film. I’ve reviewed it here.
– Sleepwalk With Me (Australia, 2012) : This is a very off-beat film about a comedian who has sleep-walking issues. Mike Birbiglia is Matt, a struggling comedian, who’s taking low-paying comedy gigs across the country, trying to keep alive his relationship with his girlfriend and deal with his sleep-walking issues at the same time.
– A Very Long Engagement (“Un long dimanche de fiançailles”, France, 2004, subtitled) : Audrey Tatou is Mathilde, a determined young woman in France, and fiancee to a man who disappeared in battle during World War 1. In the film, Mathilde tries to find out what happened to her fiance. Mathilde is lame from polio, but her quick mind and resourcefulness help in her investigation.
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[/amazon_link]- Butter (2011) : There are apparently butter-sculpting contests (I did not know this). This film is about one such contest.
Jennifer Garner stars as Laura, wife of butter-carving state champ Bob (Ty Burrell). When Bob decides to not compete anymore to give others a chance at winning, ambitious Laura, who’s hoped to ride her husband’s coattails to the State Governor’s mansion as First Lady of Iowa, is crestfallen and angered so much so that she decides to enter the county competition herself. Her only serious competition is Destiny, an African-American child who’s still getting to know her foster parents.
