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Best Sellers

Name: Best Sellers
Director: Lina Roessler
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2021
Duration: 1 h 42 min
Cast: Michael Caine, Aubrey Plaza, Scott Speedman, Ellen Wong, Cary Elwes

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Comedy
Drama

2021
Lina Roessler
102 mins
15

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Lucy Stanbridge has inherited her father's publishing house, and the ambitious would-be editor has nearly sunk it with failing titles. She discovers she is owed a book by Harris Shaw, a reclusive, cantankerous author who originally put the company on the map decades earlier. In a last-ditch effort to save the company, Lucy and Harris release his new book and embark on a tour that changes them both in ways they didn't expect. Comedy drama, starring Michael Caine and Aubrey Plaza

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Steve Morrissey

A screwball comedy of the old school, director Lina Roessler's feature debut is a fine showcase for the deadly comic timing of Aubrey Plaza and Michael Caine. Plaza plays the owner of a struggling publishing company whose salvation depends on a reclusive writer (Caine) she thought was dead. Not only is the sourpuss very much alive, but he owes her company a book and is contractually obliged to hit the book-signing trail to promote it. An odd-couple road movie is the result, with Caine and Plaza playing off each other with skill, he the boorish curmudgeon, she the privileged snark, and both of them with demons to be vanquished. Anthony Grieco's screenplay is at its best when it sticks to the screwball template set out by genre godfathers Frank Capra and Howard Hawks, while director Roessler is wise enough to sit back and let the stars carry the film. The filmic equivalent of a breezy beach read.

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6.2/10