![]() ![]() And what a ride it is! The actors appear to have a lot of fun making this, and every performance is strong. There are implausible events, sure, but everyone and everything is working together so well that we are willing to suspend disbelief and enjoy the ride. The plot is tight and cohesive, and the script and dialog are never an embarrassment to anybody involved. What's not to like in this little but big film? It's very funny. It's a wacky bumbling crime drama with a few moments of fun comedy. He's trying too hard and not quite getting the comedy right. I'm just not that impressed with Jim Kouf's writing or directing. They are good together for the most part. Jaime King is a pretty good comedic actress and Josh Cooke isn't that bad. If I want to enjoy the wild black comedy, I don't want to be have a flashing sign pointing at it. This could have been a good black comedy but the music keeps stepping on it. The movie needs to calm down the wacky comedy music. The complications do not stop as the cops try to figure exactly what's going on. Of course, Karl is actually cheating on April with Nola (Missi Pyle) who turns out to be April's sister. Things keep getting more complicated when April's husband Karl Rogers (Silas Weir Mitchell) goes home and mistakenly assumes that April is having an affair with Martin. That soon changes when Martin drowns himself accidentally. Will assumed Martin to be her husband but he turns out to be blackmailing her and is still alive. He finds April Rogers (Jaime King) stuffing Martin Cheeder (Daniel Roebuck) into her car trunk. Will Carson (Josh Cooke) is a convict who escapes after a car crash. A Fork in the Road is a great movie to watch if you just want something funny, that isn't plain stupid or a stoner/slacker movie. ![]() The plot started to get a little stale towards the end, and I think some of it could have been left out, but it moved along quickly enough that I wasn't bored, and ultimately it didn't detract enough from the film to make an impact on my overall opinion of it. And, IMHO, it is necessary to believe that in this film. He did a good job, but something just felt off in believing he was this criminal that could go off at any moment. While I generally like Josh Cooke, I will say that I'm not entirely sure he was the best choice for his role. Usually when I've seen a lot of one actor's films, it takes me out of the world and I just think of the character as the actor. I've seen a good number of Jaime King's films and, in my humble opinion, this is one of her best performances, both for the comedy and the softly stated drama of her character. I just actually cared what happened to them, while of course laughing at their ridiculous predicaments. But at the same time, it wasn't so over the top that it felt like it was changing genres or anything. Most straight-up comedies (non rom-coms) don't do that. What I really loved about this film was that while it was completely laugh out loud funny, it actually made me care about the characters. I grew up watching (re-runs of) I Love Lucy, so I'm a big fan of physical comedy, which just isn't used as often anymore, particularly with female characters for some reason. It was a really refreshing change from all the sex and fart jokes most movies have (which can totally be funny, but let's face it, are way over done and over-relied upon at this point). The opening of the movie has such great physical comedy, I was laughing out loud. I watched it on Netflix and honestly was not expecting much, but wound up being very pleasantly surprised. I'm not entirely sure why this movie has a less than stellar rating. ![]()
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