I sat through this amateurish mess at the Rhode Island Film Festival and dear god, it was tedious. The lead actress is actually quite charming, given what she has to work with; but there is simply no getting past a script this bad. The characters are one-dimensional and cartoonish -- DeeDee the crazy cutup, the stern patrician father with a hidden sensitive side -- and the story simply doesn't make sense. Particularly laughable are the "board meetings," scenes clearly conceived by a writer who has never been inside a boardroom and whose idea of this world comes straight from television. I haven't heard dialogue this hackneyed in a long time. If you make it to the mawkish ending, you will be punished for your patience. Never, never see this film.
Review of The Trouble with Dee Dee
