When Hollywood can finally get past being gaga (and no offense to Lady G herself) over Mindy Kaling, and when Mindy gets over her obsession with herself, perhaps we can see something worth looking at. Late Night is a watchable but rather overworked film (hard to say "comedy" - the audience only chuckled twice). It's a Lifetime movie pumped up for theaters. Wonderful actors - which probably saved it from going straight to DVD. Emma Thompson excellent. John Lithgow brilliant but wasted. (He could have phoned it in, but he didn't.) Many other stars in smaller roles who were VERY good but little to work with. (Watch for Luke Slattery - only two very slight scenes - but he made a LOT out of them .) Anyway, we get it. Mindy Kaling's Molly was a diversity hire who found a way to make it work for her. Mindy herself is at a caerer point where she needs to do the same. In Late Night, she is just relying on trite but cute. We've seen her do that before... too often.
Review of Late Night
