Have you ever read anything by Jodi Picoult? no? well get on it. She’s great! (many thanks to my gal Milene for introducing me to this fantastic author).
Need a place to start? I recommend My Sister’s Keeper. It’s heart-wrenching, and will make you cry, kind of like this year’s season finale of Grey’s Anatomy made me cry. You have to read it quick though. Why? because the movie comes out June 26th, and it looks good (at least the two minutes of trailer I watched).
I know what your thinking, because I thought it too when I first visited the IMDB page. I think it went something like this:
(conversation with myself)
“Cameron Diaz are you kidding me?” “Well, she must have been in something decent…think Bruna think.” “Charlies Angel’s? There’s Something about Mary? Charlie’s Angels II: Full Throttle?”
but then a shining moment:
“In Her Shoes! you loved that movie.” “I don’t know about love, but I did like it, and she definitely was not terrible in it”
(conversation with self ends)
I actually did like this movie. Probably because Toni Collete is in it, and I think she’s phenomenal and incredibly under-appreciated. Aside from the fact that she plays my favourite character in About a Boy, which is saying something considering Hugh Grant is the lead (I love him like Angelina Jolie loves adopting babies), she’s also the lead in one of my favourite movies ever, Muriel’s Wedding. Never heard of/watched it it? Go out and rent it now (I don’t care if it’s midnight and your in your skivvies eating popsicles and watching reruns of Family Matters).
Here’s the story:
Insecure girl desperately want’s to be part of the cool clique (despite the fact that they are rude to her, and generally treat her like trash). After re-acquainting herself with a former friend during a trip to Hawaii (she can’t afford the ticket so she scams her parents for the money), insecure girl grows a pair, ditches the cool clique and makes a new life for herself. But all is not sunshine and rainbows, the shit hits the fan and insecure girl falls back into some old traps. I won’t tell you the rest, but I will tell you this: it’s all set to Abba music.
Here’s the trailer:
I know what your thinking “I don’t want to watch that”. Watch it anyways, I promise you won’t be disappointed. Like that time I recommended Daniel Craig become the new Bond (yeah, that was me), you weren’t dissapointed then were you? I didn’t think so.
Oh, and don’t forget to watch My Sister’s Keeper, because this post was going somewhere before it went everywhere.
